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  1. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    Then you take her without reservation, disclaimer, parental demands, or otherwise. You take her as she is with all her faults, weaknesses, idiosyncrasies, and requirements. You take her without qualification, with no strings attached by anyone else, because that's what loving someone means.
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  2. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
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  3. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it.
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  4. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.
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  5. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    Where there's faith, there is no fear." She smiled weakly. "What part of the Bible is that from?" He patted her hand. "That one, my dear, is from Father Paul Joseph Kelly. And you can have it at no extra charge.
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  6. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    Trains had a nostalgic magnetism that was undeniable, even for the many Americans who'd never even been on one.
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  7. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    Eleanor, love is like a good piece of wood: It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.
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  8. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    Well, honey, I'm a sixty-three-year-old fat woman with sore feet, high blood pressure, and the beginnings of diabetes. I know I don't have all that much time left, and I can either spend it moping and complaining about the things I never got to in life, or I can do something I love and help people along the way. I decided to keep plugging 'til I drop.
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  9. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    Well, nobody wants to be alone, especially around Christmas. I'm sure you know that most suicides happen around the holidays. Besides, this isn't a train this time of year. It's a social club of strangers looking for a friend.
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  10. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    Not really. All you have to do is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.
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  11. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    For Tom the vision of Agnes Joe crammed inside the cockpit of a two-seater Cessna, her hammy fingers curled around the yoke, her enormous feet on the rudder pedals, wavered right on hallucinatory.
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  12. David Baldacci _ The Christmas Train

    It had always bothered Tom that women thought they could win an argument with a man simply by appealing to his baser instincts, by holding out the mere possibility of award-winning carnal knowledge. It was the gender-battle equivalent of a preemptive nuclear strike. He thought it unfair and, quite frankly, disrespectful of the entire male population.
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