About Grace
Anthony Doerr
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“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”
“You ever hope for something so much? So much you can't sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don't even know if the thing you're wishing for is possible? You don't even know if it could happen? And it's all out of your control?”
“Our shadows are our histories. We drag them everywhere.”
“Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.”
“The stars were so many and so white they looked like chips of ice, hammered through the fabric of the sky.”
“What use are memories when memories can do little more than fade?”
“He marveled at the indifference of the world, the way it kept on, despite everything.”
“This, perhaps, is how lives are measured, a series of abandonments that we hope beyond reason will eventually be reconciled.”
“Maybe he was dead and this island was purgatory from which he could only watch the souls of the more deserving go shuttling past to their various Edens. What is death, after all, but a cessation of involvement with the world, a departure from those you love, and those who love you?”
“But have heart. Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even. Take it from me.”
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