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1 " And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong. "
― , The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
2 " The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life. "
3 " I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine. "
4 " I still hadn’t learned the power of words. How, once they have left your mouth, they have a breath and a life of their own. I had yet to realize that you no longer own them. I hadn’t learned that, once you have let them go, the words can then, in fact, become the owner of you. "
5 " After my bedroom, this was my favourite place in the world. It was carpeted, and had heavy bookcases and ticking clocks and velvet chairs, just like someone’s living room. It smelled of unturned pages and unseen adventures, and on every shelf were people I had yet to meet, and places I had yet to visit. Each time, I lost myself in the corridors of books and the polished, wooden rooms, deciding which journey to go on next. Mrs "
6 " My mother said I was at an awkward age. I didn't feel especially awkward, so I presumed she meant that it was awkward for them. "
7 " I waited. I had discovered that, sometimes, if you held on to the silence, people couldn’t stop themselves from filling it up. "
8 " People tend to believe things just because everyone else does.' Walter looked at his hands and began biting into the skin next to his fingernails. 'They don't search for proof, they just search for approval from everyone else. "
9 " You'll understand as you get older. You can spot them a mile off, You'll learn to cross the street.' [...] 'Perhaps that's why they don't mix,' said Tilly, 'because everyone else is on the other side of the street? "
10 " The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener. "
11 " It’s the small decisions, the ones that slip themselves into your day unnoticed, the ones that wrap their weight in insignificance. These are the decisions that bury you "
12 " It appeared that Jesus pulled a much bigger crowd if He provided garibaldis. "
13 " The only problem with losing your mind was that you never lost the memories you wanted to lose. "
14 " You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong. "
15 " Mrs Morton’s knitting needles tutting against each other in disapproval. "
16 " I stared at the thick gold cross on the altar. It reflected every one of us: the pious and the ungodly; the opportunist and the devout. Each of us had our reasons for being there, quiet and expectant, and secreted between the pages of a hymnbook. How would God manage to answer us all? “Lamb "
17 " He missed her reassurance. The way she stole his disquiet and diluted it, and how her unconcern would pull him through their day. She never dismissed his worries, she just disentangled them, smoothing down the edges and spreading them out until they became thin and insignificant "
18 " We’ve decided she probably isn’t dead after all,” I said. “Well, that’s something.” “And now we need God to find her. You have to remember that God is everywhere, Mrs. Morton. "
19 " What do you mean, Jesus?' May Roper pulled the crocheted sea a little further up her legs. 'On the drainpipe. I've seen Him with my own eyes.''Have you been in the sun again, Brian?''Sheila Dakin thinks it's a sign.''A sign she's been at the sherry. "
20 " They assumed I didn't understand the conversation, and it was much easier to let them think that. My mother said I was at an awkward age. I didn't feel especially awkward, so I presumed she meant it was awkward for them. "