Salley Vickers Quotes

#1. Full revelation, she couldn't help feeling, was something which was considered a virtue only among the reckless or the cruel.

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#2. We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.

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#3. Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.

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#4. Age and disease and death may destroy our physical being but it is other people who get inside us and damage our hearts and minds.
The Other Side of You

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#5. The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.

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#6. Beware, beware of those who care,' as some wise person said. Not that I'm suggesting there is anything wrong with caring. But as Granny Maud used to say, 'Fine words butter no parsnips,' and she might have added, 'Caring should be felt and not heard.

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