Phyllis Edgerly Ring Quotes

#1. It seemed wrong that flowers could bloom, the world be so beautiful, after so much destruction.

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#2. Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away,
but that it changes my perception and experience within them.
~ Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details

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#3. In the end, they'll protect their own interests by sending boys off to slaughter, just like last time. Like they always do.

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#4. War, for most women, is about the destiny of one person. For me, it became three - the one I feared was dead, and the two of you who now are.

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#5. Those things we think will always last are suddenly gone, and it almost feels as if they never were, or were simply a dream.

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#6. When we find the courage to face our pain, it always helps heal others, as well as ourselves".

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#7. Even for survivors, now, there is nothing but roles. Like a bizarre reversal of animals playing dead, we are expected to act alive when we are dead inside. There is nowhere for the truth of one's feelings.

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#8. Most of the women correspondents couldn't make a marriage last. We'd tasted too much of life on our own terms and you didn't find men who could manage with that.

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#9. These are modern times, nicht? Not our grandmother's days. There's more to life than finding some lord and master and being under his thumb. I swear I'll never live in such a prison!

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#10. The quiet is funereal, air as thick and still as if it never moves; as if all sound has been smothered out, the way a blanket subdues a fire. The atmosphere has weight, and simultaneously seems a vacuum.

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