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  1. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love?" she asked him. "You are just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide. Completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and that you can trust him not to hurt you.
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  2. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine," Vincenzo Giuliani said quietly. " 'Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.' " "But the sparrow still falls," Felipe said.
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  3. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    So God just leaves?" John asked, angry where Emilio had been desolate. "Abandons creation? You're on your own, apes. Good luck!" "No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of human life and gives meaning to it by caring passionately about us, and remembering.
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  4. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    Listen', he said seriously, 'I'm not just wasting your time telling funny stories. You have to know about stuff like this or your program is going to claim it's found intelligent life on Mars. And everyone knows there's only Australians there, right?
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  5. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport,
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  6. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    They spoke then, with the dear and ordinary intimacy of the well-married in the eye of a storm. {369}
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  7. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    Anne shrieked with laughter, but George yelled, "I don't suppose we could get a little gravity around here?" and D.W. hollered back, "Nope. All we got is levity." And thus began the first morning of the Jesuit mission to Rakhat. {148}
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  8. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    There is simply no alternative. We have to know them.
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  9. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    So much of what he knew about religion struck him as total bullshit; he was disarmed when the fathers freely admitted that some stories were in fact pious fictions. But, judging his character, they dared him to cut through what he called the crap: to find the core of truth, carefully preserved and offered
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  10. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    hair and crumbs and unidentifiable orts to be vacuumed,
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  11. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    WELL, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the Stella Maris is on her way out of the solar system,
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  12. Mary Doria Russell _ The Sparrow

    He found the life of Jesus profoundly moving; the miracles, on the other hand, seemed a barrier to faith, and he tended to explain them to himself in rational terms. It was as though there were only seven loaves and seven fishes. Maybe the miracle was that people shared what they had with strangers, he thought in the darkness.
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