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  1. Jane Hamilton _ The Book of Ruth

    I knew that we were two humans, that's all, two humans walking around blindly in the night, looking for a warm hand.
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  2. Jane Hamilton _ The Book of Ruth

    Still, it is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
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  3. Jane Hamilton _ The Book of Ruth

    Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.
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  4. Jane Hamilton _ The Book of Ruth

    I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help. My trust, even down in that dark place I carry, is that some person will come running. And then finally the way through grief is grieving.
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  5. Jane Hamilton _ The Book of Ruth

    In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.
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  6. Jane Hamilton _ The Book of Ruth

    I heard the phrases and I wanted all of me to call out in a song, a song that doesn't have words, a song that almost doesn't have noise. A lot of people take a short cut and call that feeling of song love. They just call it that because there isn't a way to describe it. But the word love doesn't describe the half of it. It doesn't do anything to bring to mind the song we all want so desperately to sing.
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  7. Jane Hamilton _ The Book of Ruth

    It must be strange to keep your strong mind in a body that grows older and weaker and no longer resembles your own image of yourself.
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  8. Jane Hamilton _ The Book of Ruth

    We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.
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  9. Jane Hamilton _ The Book of Ruth

    We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.
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  10. Jane Hamilton _ The Book of Ruth

    Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.
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