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81 " Well -- think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no -- hang on -- this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way? "
― Donna Tartt
82 " It is the very thing I thought I could never be that the real me has settled into like a puzzle. Who would have thought I could be me? "
― Malebo Sephodi
83 " Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe. "
― Brian South , The Zombie Sheriff Takes Tucson: A Love Story
84 " He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself. "
― Elizabeth Gaskell , North and South
85 " Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel. "
― Thomas Hardy , Far From the Madding Crowd
86 " And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her and make her weak. "
― Ahdaf Soueif , The Map of Love
87 " To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs. "
88 " God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear. "