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“A searching study of the chaotic side of love.” (People ) “The beauty of this novel lies not only in the telling but in its commitment to the passionate life.” (Newsweek ) “A Ship Made of Paper rocks with suspense and daring.” (Salon.com )
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- Paul: Add a description of this character.
- Kate Ellis
- Bernard
- Sonny
- Annabelle
- Evangeline
- Todd Lawson
- Frank
- Leyden
- Liza
- Caltagirone
- Ruby
- Goodwin
- Nina
- Madeline
- Woody
- Will
- Matthew
- Chris
- Dinah Maloney
- Stephanie
- Ortiz
- Butler
- Tori
- Adachi
- Claff
- Slouka
- Dr. Montgomery
- Roberta
- Mazzerelli
- Joyce
- Jerry
- Tarwater
- Tony
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The things for which we feverishly prepare aren’t generally the things that actually happen. Our undoing comes waltzing in through another door altogether…
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Maybe that’s the secret of love, sometimes it carries you, and other times it’s your turn and you’ve got to carry it.
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But how can we ever see ourselves, let alone see ourselves as others see us, when the person seeing is the same as the person seen? And when our senses are clouded by wishes and fears and preexisting images, what chance do we have to glimpse ourselves as others see us?
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them—it is not God whom they have overcome, not God whom they somehow see through. It’s the people who do believe in God that are the real target of their atheism…
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Those in the IQ aristocracy have fallen in love with their own minds, which is a dangerous, and foolish, and possibly insane thing to do, and their vanity over their extra IQ points fills them with hubris, and they believe themselves to have no superiors.
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Ignorance wasn’t bliss but rather a gauzy scarf thrown over the lamp of knowledge, coloring the light, making it less harsh.
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how things you thought would kick your ass forever and ever can over time lose their power.
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Years on the job taught him that the road to hell is paved with extra words. People who know how the world works say as little as possible.
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He is like a man carrying a load that is far heavier than he can manage but who has nevertheless found a way to hoist it up and stagger forward a few steps. If his balance is at all disturbed, the true weight of what he is carrying will assert itself, and the task will prove impossible.
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He’s walking Shep and cleaning the country road of the winter’s debris that spring has exposed, hoping to remove the toxins in his bloodstream through the dialysis of good deeds.
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Scott Spencer (Author)
Awards edit
- Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (2010: Top Ten)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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