Top 36 Ian Caldwell Quotes
#1. After Father died, she told me that it felt strange to have hands anymore, what with no one to hold them.
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#3. We both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
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#4. A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
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#5. Boia is trying to force Simon to talk. Nowak is trying to keep the exhibit a secret.
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#6. His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.
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#7. Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.
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#8. Life has taught this boy to string nets beneath his hopes.
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#9. So this is how my friend died. Because I taught him how to read the gospels. And because he had the bravery to speak out about what they revealed.
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#10. The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.
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#11. Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.
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#12. Never mix books and bed. In the spectrum of excitement, sex & thought were on opposite ends. Both to be enjoyed, but never at the same time.
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#13. The two hardest things to contemplate in life ( ... ) are failure and age, and those are one and the same.
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#14. Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is born anew from the father's body, fated to live the same number of years.
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#15. They could never quite reconcile themselves to the idea that our lives don't follow the dramatic arc that a good author gives to a great literary character. Only in accidents of pure perfection does the world actually become a stage. (Rule of Four, 54-55)
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#16. I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
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#17. I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
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#18. A good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask
but a great friend does it without being asked at all.
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#19. Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.
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#20. Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.
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#22. A death wish is not the same as a willingness to die.
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#23. The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
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#24. That was the recipe of our relationship, I think. We gave each other what we never expected to find.
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#25. He told me once that praying is like being a soccer coach and calling saints off the bench.
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#26. A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there's nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope.
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#27. People lie. People disagree. People make mistakes. To find out the truth, you have to know how to search for it.
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#28. Hope ... which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.
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#29. The motto here is that a new door opens every time you push another man out a window.
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#30. The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
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#32. What puzzles me most is the disappearance of the Diatessaron and where it might be now.
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#33. A boy can't imagine how hard he will find it, someday, to forgive his own enemies. Or his own loved ones. He has no inkling that good men can sometimes find it impossible to forgive themselves. The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.
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#34. When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.
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#35. 'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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#36. The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see
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