Top 23 David Ebershoff Quotes
#1. Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, I should have paid more.
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#2. Anywhere the devout gather to worship, there will always be a parade.
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#3. Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?'
'Do I look like an oxymoron to you?'
'An oxymormon.
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#4. I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.
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#5. I, of course, cherish my freedom, but I shall never want my freedom to restrict the freedom of another. In that case then I am not truly free, and none of us is truly free.
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#6. Do you know what I miss most about Rosemary? Simply knowing she was there.
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#7. Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.
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#8. I wish I could claim I faced my first day of apostasy with courage and certainty. Yet in truth, I had never felt more afraid.
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#9. I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.
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#10. Love and trust are Siamese twins, as conjoined as Chang and Eng.
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#11. My duty, I know, is to lead. I cannot offer an array of options. I must offer a long but narrow path to Salvation, and guide the Saints down it. Were that path wide and varied, it would lead nowhere; and I will then have failed both God and man.
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#13. Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.
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#14. Yes, but if I were to look down there what would I see?"
"Don't think about it like that," Greta said. "That's not the only thing that makes you Lili.
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#15. I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery.
Ann Eliza Young, page 253
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#17. There is nothing more alarming to a boy than seeing a mother, or a father, buckling. It says to him that all will not be well. The boy does not know this, but he senses it, as a dog senses it, as a dog sense his master's true state of mind. (Lorenzo Dee)
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#18. Einar felt lonely, and he wondered if anybody in the world would ever know him.
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#19. And wasn't that the inexhaustible struggle for Greta? Her perpetual need to be alone but always loved, and in love.
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#20. I write not for sensation, but for Truth. I leave judgement to the hearts of my good Readers everywhere.
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#21. Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.
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#22. What do I consider myself now? A man attempting to be good. In this endeavor I have no use for church and steeple. If another man does, I only wish he finds what he needs.
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#23. When my mom pulled the trigger my dad had a full house, three fives and a pair of ducks. He was all in. The paper says although dead, he ended up winning seven grand. I once heard someone on tv say we die as we lived. That sounds about right.
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