Chris Nicolaisen Quotes

#1. Their faces were contorted with a horror only known to those who have silenced their consciences.

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#2. Jane wondered why small-minded people often form such large groups as she made her way home.

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#3. You want to know the secret to raising good kids?"
"What's that? asked Thomas.
"High expectations."
Thomas laughed. "Alright, well what's the secret to a happy marriage?"
Clyde smiled back, but his face started to fall, and he chose his words carefully. " ... Low expectations.

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#4. It was as hard to be a Norwegian in 1881 as it was to be an American in 1770. Perhaps even harder, as Norway was far from a young nation.

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#5. Thomas had never seen anything like her in his life, and he knew, with a beautiful sort of sadness, that he never would again.

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#6. I need a seatbelt on an airplane like a hole in the head, thought Jane, as she smiled back.

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#7. Scars are something of a body's memoir.

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#8. The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing at all, almost as if they spoke a dying language few could appreciate or even understand.

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#9. It takes a day to fall in love and a lifetime to forget.

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