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Book: Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
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  1. James Lee Burke _ Light of the World: A Dave

    At some point in your life, you have to give up anger or it will destroy your spirit the way cancer destroys living tissue.
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  2. James Lee Burke _ Light of the World: A Dave

    A tanker truck appeared far down the wavy surface of the highway, headlights on, its weight and shimmering cylindrical shape and dedicated purpose so great and unrelenting that it seemed to move and jitter against the sun's afterglow without sound or mechanically driven power, sustained by its own momentum, as though the truck had a destiny that had been planned long ago."
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  3. James Lee Burke _ Light of the World: A Dave

    The armies of the night are faceless and mindless and the modern equivalent of Visigoths, but when they have a leader, their time in history rolls around again.
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  4. James Lee Burke _ Light of the World: A Dave

    All our dreams and hopes become as naught, and evil men are allowed to hang their lanterns on our tombstones. What greater folly is there?
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  5. James Lee Burke _ Light of the World: A Dave

    A tanker truck appeared far down the wavy surface of the highway, headlights on, its weight and shimmering cylindrical shape and dedicated purpose so great and unrelenting that it seemed to move and jitter against the sun's afterglow without sound or mechanically driven power, sustained by its own momentum, as though the truck had a destiny that had been planned long ago.
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  6. James Lee Burke _ Light of the World: A Dave

    Through the screen, he could smell the evening as though it were a living presence, the purple and yellow flowers in his yard and the dark green wetness of the fescue part of a song that was never supposed to die. Except he could feel things ending, coming apart at the center, and he didn't know why.
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  7. James Lee Burke _ Light of the World: A Dave

    soldiers who return from foreign battlefields with a syndrome that survivors of the Great War called the thousand-yard stare.
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  8. James Lee Burke _ Light of the World: A Dave

    At a certain age, you realize the greatest loss you can experience is a theft you perpetrate upon yourself-the waste of days given us. Is there any more piercing remorse than the realization that a person has thrown away the potential that resides in every sunrise?
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  9. James Lee Burke _ Light of the World: A Dave

    THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.
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