Secrets of Eden
Chris Bohjalian
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.”
“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”
“I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....”
“But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.”
“The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.”
“With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.”
“Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn't especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs -- she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead -- and thus she scoured parks and gardens for the angels with whom, on some level, she wanted to commune.”
“The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...”
“Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm.”
“Too often we presume that the unexpected strangers in our lives bode ill,or we are skeptical of their designs.We think we know more. And while I am well aware that there is indeed all manner of malevolence in the ether,there is benevolence there,too”
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Book Keywords:
memories, angels, cemeteries, reality, experience, food, random-kindness, life-experience, life-lessons, tombstones, reality-of-life, inspirational, age, maturity
