Top 35 Hillary Jordan Quotes
#1. There are infinite kinds of love, Reverend Dale liked to say, but charity is the purest of them all, because it's the only one that doesn't ask, What's in it for me?
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#2. This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.
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#3. Henry was wholly preoccupied with the farm. I would have gotten more notice from him if I'd grown a tail and started to bray.
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#5. [He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.
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#6. I loved all my children, but I loved Ronsel the most. If that was a sin I reckoned God would forgive me for it, seeing as how He the one stacked the cards in the first place.
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#7. She wondered how many of them were liars; their outer purity masking crimes as dark or darker than her own. How many would be chromes themselves, if the truth in their hearts were revealed.
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#8. I never got falling-down drunk, just maintained a nice steady infusion throughout the day. A lot of it I sweated out. The rest I put to use. I was the designated charmer of the household, the one responsible for keeping everybody else's spirits up. To play my part I needed booze. I
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#10. I knew their kind: locked in the imagined glory of the past, scared of losing what they thought was theirs.
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#12. There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.
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#13. Something bad happen to a child, you can be sure his daddy gone be off somewhere else.
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#14. She reached out and stroked my hair just as she had when I was a child. I closed my eyes and let sleep take me, feeling utterly safe.
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#15. That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.
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#16. Jamie didn't talk to me about the war. Most men don't, who've seen real combat. It's the ones who spent their tours well behind the lines who want to tell you all about it, and the ones who never served who want to know.
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#17. She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.
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#18. You'll move if I say so," Hap said. "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church." "Only so long as he alive," I said. "For if the husband be dead the wife is loosed from his law. Says so in Romans.
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#19. It wasn't just that he loved her; it was that he loved her, in particular.
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#20. It wasn't her fault if she seemed less than human, it was the fault of them that did this to her, and them that didn't raise a voice against it.
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#21. When the river takes me I don't try to swim or stay afloat. I open my eyes and my mouth and let the water fill me up. I feel my lungs spasm but there's no pain, and I stop being afraid. The current carries me along. I'm flotsam, and I understand that flotsam is all I've ever been.
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#22. How could predetermination and free will both exist? "It's
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#23. She experienced a moment of incandescent wonder, a sense of being connected, not just to these people, but to everyone and everything alive: every beating heart, every fluttering wing, every green shoot thrusting itself up out of the earth, seeking, as she was, the sun.
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#25. Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.
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#26. I talked to her just like I talk to a laboring woman. Mothers need to hear them soothing words. They just as important as the medicines, sometimes even more.
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#27. You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.
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#28. With the cruel natural order that had made me simultaneously undesirable to men and unable to feel complete without one.
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#29. Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that?
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#30. I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here.
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#31. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. I'll begin with that. With Love.
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#32. Florence may have sensed something, but I had no idea of what I was setting in motion the day I gave Ronsel Jackson a lift from town.
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#33. How I wished sometimes that I could join him in his stark, right-angled world, where everything was either right or wrong and there was no doubt which was which. What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if.
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#34. The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.
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#35. She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.
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