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Richard Russo Quote: “When you tossed pebbles down from the embankment, they believed in God. One.”

251. “When you tossed pebbles down from the embankment, they believed in God. One.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Shush, Isobel,” the priest told her. “When such terrible things leave your tongue, they fly directly to God’s ear.” She had stood then and turned, peering into the darkness of the church for Sully, who had sunk down into his pew. “What difference?” she said. “God isn’t listening.”

252. “Shush, Isobel,” the priest told her. “When such terrible things leave your tongue, they fly directly to God’s ear.” She had stood then and turned, peering into the darkness of the church for Sully, who had sunk down into his pew. “What difference?” she said. “God isn’t listening.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Golf was not a game he’d ever particularly wanted to take up. Nobody he liked had ever played golf, and a lot of the people he disliked intensely played all the time.”

253. “Golf was not a game he’d ever particularly wanted to take up. Nobody he liked had ever played golf, and a lot of the people he disliked intensely played all the time.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we’re left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.”

254. “The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we’re left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.”

255. “No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.”

256. “The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Once she started going to church, she couldn’t stop. She attended Mass the way drunks went on binges. She couldn’t get enough. In church she felt safe and secure. Not even my father would dare violate its cool, dark sanctity. She took me along for company.”

257. “Once she started going to church, she couldn’t stop. She attended Mass the way drunks went on binges. She couldn’t get enough. In church she felt safe and secure. Not even my father would dare violate its cool, dark sanctity. She took me along for company.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “They might have been interesting if the people beneath had done the writing, but the living had nothing worthwhile to say about the dead.”

258. “They might have been interesting if the people beneath had done the writing, but the living had nothing worthwhile to say about the dead.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “A silly lie. A lie so small and to so little purpose that it suggested to Miles a way of life, a strategy for confronting the world, and this was further reason – if any was needed – to doubt the truth of everything the man had said inside.”

259. “A silly lie. A lie so small and to so little purpose that it suggested to Miles a way of life, a strategy for confronting the world, and this was further reason – if any was needed – to doubt the truth of everything the man had said inside.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “He couldn’t very well start lecturing the boy now. There was every reason to believe that the first thirty-five years of Peter’s life had been the formative ones.”

260. “He couldn’t very well start lecturing the boy now. There was every reason to believe that the first thirty-five years of Peter’s life had been the formative ones.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “How, he couldn’t help wondering, did you get to be this woman’s age and still believe, as she apparently did, that everything meant something? She was obviously one of those people who just soldiered on, determined to believe whatever gave them comfort in the face of all contrary evidence. And maybe that wasn’t so dumb. The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.”

261. “How, he couldn’t help wondering, did you get to be this woman’s age and still believe, as she apparently did, that everything meant something? She was obviously one of those people who just soldiered on, determined to believe whatever gave them comfort in the face of all contrary evidence. And maybe that wasn’t so dumb. The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Many inspired plans are hatched in darkness. And once dignity is surrendered there are plenty of options.”

262. “Many inspired plans are hatched in darkness. And once dignity is surrendered there are plenty of options.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “I don’t dislike Gracie. At least I don’t dislike her when I think about her. When I’m in one place and she’s in another. It’s when she’s near enough to backhand that back-handing her always seems like a good idea. This is true of several of my colleagues, actually, though they don’t bother me in the abstract.”

263. “I don’t dislike Gracie. At least I don’t dislike her when I think about her. When I’m in one place and she’s in another. It’s when she’s near enough to backhand that back-handing her always seems like a good idea. This is true of several of my colleagues, actually, though they don’t bother me in the abstract.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “It was for this reason he’d always felt that owning things was overrated. All you were doing was alleviating the disappointment of not owning them.”

264. “It was for this reason he’d always felt that owning things was overrated. All you were doing was alleviating the disappointment of not owning them.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Of late, Mrs. Grouse had come to see virtually everything he enjoyed as a potential source of upset. She seemed intent on making his remaining years one long Lenten season. When he objected, she reminded him that objections were upsetting. “Send.”

265. “Of late, Mrs. Grouse had come to see virtually everything he enjoyed as a potential source of upset. She seemed intent on making his remaining years one long Lenten season. When he objected, she reminded him that objections were upsetting. “Send.”

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