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1 " Ward had a big presence when he was around, a scary one that could suck the air out of a room. He could lose control of his temper and all hell could break loose. "
― Elizabeth Garden , Tree of Lives
2 " Did his crime give others some kind of implicit permission to behave the same way, reverberating on and on into the future? "
3 " He took a mental picture of this moment’s happy scene to carry with him into the darkness of that dreadful place where he had been chosen as a special pet of the priest. "
4 " She hoped her words rang true about her lost daughter Sarai as well, whom she hadn’t seen in over eighteen years, though she still thought about her every day and still prayed for a kind word from her. Or even a cranky one. "
5 " He recognized the same frenzy of wild abandon that each of those adults shared while beating their children, as if the important object lesson being taught justified their outsized zeal. "
6 " The local police was her brother Martin, the sheriff. Her father was the Assistant Chief of Police. The last thing she was going to do was tell them Ray was AWOL from the mental institution. "
7 " One by one, they pushed ahead to get a swipe at Ruth, her only ally the narrow confines of the bus aisle. "
8 " We’ve got to get her out of that goddamned art school. Besides, that money could be put to much better use. I want to redecorate. "
9 " Pratik lit a candle and performed a little ceremony for the solemn occasion of the moment, placing a flower before Ruth’s ‘yoni.’ He bowed down and mumbled a serious sounding prayer in Bengali. "
10 " You know there are no Jews working for me. Not one. I won’t hire them.' He sounded proud of the ugly fact. "
11 " One thing was certain, even standing still on this path led the little family of three in the opposite direction of the girls’ deadbeat father. "
12 " Ultimately, Ruth decided that not punishing the wicked was unfair to the good. "
13 " I believe nobody really dies. We are energy and continue to exist. So where else would our spirits go than where there is the magnet of love, where we have a shared interest? "
14 " According to the general implication in my parents’ household, as a mere girl, my life was essentially without any purpose beyond getting married and reproducing. But to me it certainly wasn’t without purpose. "
15 " Because there is beauty and there is art that celebrates it like a secret language, I was reassured and connected to something greater than my immediate surroundings. "
