Ari Berk Quotes

#1. He could feel his father's history like ruts worn deep in the road.

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#2. The past is a chatty companion, I can tell you.

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#3. To love you is her nature. But hers is a love from which no good may come. And your desire for her will lead only to cold, dark places.

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#4. Honest error may play prologue to wonders.

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#5. Besides, love flourishes best in ignorance ... or in absence.

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#6. Silas deliberately ignored that question, which he knew was as much for him as it was for Uncle. It was going to be one of those nights where she'd sink her teeth into a topic and keep chewing and chewing at it.

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#7. For when we read, don't we summon the past into the present? Hold out our hand and invite an author to sit with us for a time?

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#8. And somewhere, buried away deep inside him, a hidden chamber of his heart opened.

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#9. Love is fragile and rare and cannot live long in open air.

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#10. She could feel the common blood song inside the place, the chorus of ancestors moving about in familiar constellations.

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#11. Why? I mean, how could you know? I don't understand."

"Nothing to understand. There is no great mystery in friendship. You brought yourself here, just as I brought myself here to wait for you. I don't even mind that you've kept me waiting.

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#12. He'd never called her. Wanted to. A hundred times. But every time he thought about it, his mind boiled up with every reason not to do it, every doubt he'd ever had about himself.

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#13. Each of them had been looking for a way out of their own black midnights, and each of them still had a long way to go until they found some kind of dawn.

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#14. Little things like time and generations don't matter very much with good friends who are fond of each other's company.

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#15. Amos surely left it behind for a reason, and more and more Mrs. Bowe felt she was following a path trod out for her by another. For the time being, she was willing to play the part allotted to her. But she would keep an eye on the boy in her way.

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#16. Or maybe a ghost was only a thing that endures, like the furnishings of this room, like the chairs or table; a little worse for wear, but still here because someone cherished it, or because it was made of such hardy stuff that time couldn't wear it down fast enough.

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#17. For didn't everyone have secret parts and shadows?

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#18. Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change.

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#19. To get ahead, sometimes you had to retrace your steps.

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#20. Dolores liked that story. Men were wolves and practical women took the knife to them, and those wolves, those sharp-toothed men, they didn't come back after that.

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#21. Like him, Uncle had eccentric tastes and liked old things. The difference, Silas was beginning to see, was that Uncle saw such objects as extensions of himself, of his body, essential, required, uniquely his. This thought made Silas uneasy.

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#22. That heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love.

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#23. Here, in this house, her recollections glowed like embers on the hearth, and each night, in their warmth, she'd take a memory or two down from the shelf and dance with them for a while.

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#24. Sense is the song you sing out into the world, and the song the world sings back to you.

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#25. Worry can pull a person's face into a mask of anxious lines, and he could tell she'd had some of that, but even worried folks could laugh.

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