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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 Short History of a Prince

    He thought there must be a place, like a dead-letter office, where everyone's longing went, yearning that was sent out, day after day. He thought it must collect somewhere, in a dank basement room, the mass of it rising and rising like water, and with no end in sight.
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  3. Jane Hamilton _ The Short History of a Prince

    The law of thermodynamics, you know, the idea that nothing is lost, that a loss in one area equals a gain in the other, was actually not invented by scientists but by the people who write redemptive fiction. {...} Actually, in real life, we lose things all the time and they're gone. Lost, period.
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  4. Jane Hamilton _ The Short History of a Prince

    Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Jane Hamilton _ The Excellent Lombards

    There were moments, I could now see, when it was understandable to completely go off your rocker. The easiest and most reasonable and maybe proper thing to do in the world, to lose hold of yourself.
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  8. Jane Hamilton _ A Map of the World

    Emma, Emma, Emma," I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.
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  9. Jane Hamilton _ The Excellent Lombards

    The harvest was a wild living thing that you were trying to tame while all the while it was dragging you behind, arms out, flailing, in the chase. But here was the miracle: Despite the chaos, the lack of planning, the bad feeling between Sherwood and my father, there was also an overriding unity of purpose, a reverence for the family history, a love for the soil within the property lines.
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Jane Hamilton _ A Map of the World

    I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I'll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink scales, finding her new arms to do the breaststroke to shore.
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