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  1. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    I'm alone," Angie had told me a month ago. "No, you're not.""You're not alone," I said, my arms wrapped around her from behind. "Yes, I am. And all your holding and all your love can't change that right now.
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  2. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    the other side of his desk. "Yeah, well, like I always say, miss, you could"
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  3. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    People surprise you sometimes.
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  4. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.
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  5. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    And that's when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity.
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  6. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    You've mislaid your trust in the past, had your faith in people broken, shattered even. You've been betrayed. Lied to. So you've chosen not to trust. And this protects you to some extent, I'm sure. But it also isolates you from the rest of humanity. You are disconnected. You are displaced. And the only way to find your way back to a place, to a connection, is to trust again.
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  7. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.
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  8. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you.
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  9. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    She should have a ride named after her at Epcot, man.
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  10. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    We all have our crosses to bear.
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  11. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    Grief," he said, "is carnivorous. It feeds whether you're awake or not, whether you fight it or you don't. Much like cancer. And one morning you wake up and all those other emotions-joy, envy, greed, even love-are swallowed by it. And you're alone with grief, naked to it. And it owns you.
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  12. Dennis Lehane _ Sacred

    Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.
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