Top 18 Stephanie Oakes Quotes
#1. It is amazing that, though I am small and ungifted and barely educated, even I can appreciate the scale of the universe. And from this perch in space, for this moment at least, it seems unimportant whether someone made it, or if it made itself.
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#2. I think you should be angry if you're angry. But it's also true that hate has a way of hurting you more than the person you're hating.
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#4. A human God. How preferable to an invisible God, I thought, one you're not even sure exists. I was never taught basic math, but by the time I figured out how to finger count, I deduced that Charlie was around my age.
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#5. Anger is a kind of murder you commit in your heart." If this is true, I'm a daily murderer. My heart is more full of blood than I ever imagined.
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#6. That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.
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#7. Even after months of healing, it doesn't take much to make me bleed
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#8. Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don't anymore.
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#9. Moments like this occurred more and more frequently, and I think that was the biggest difference between us. That we could look at the same stars in the same sky, but not have the same questions. Not want the same answers.
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#11. Jude used to try to make me laugh, and when I'd crack a smile he'd keep the joke going , like breath on an ember, making it grow into a fit of giggles that'd echo around the whole forest and make all the birds in the trees quiet.
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#12. Crime is never preventable because the mind will always grow bored.
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#13. I guess people can't be content without answers, even if they're wrong. We'd rather have a lie than a question that we can never know the answer to.
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#14. Did he say anything interesting?" I ask. "A revelation that the Lord is reborn in a chicken nugget, maybe?
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#15. I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty.
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#17. Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person's pain. That's it.
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#18. When I lost my son, I became a citizen of a country I never knew existed.
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