“If you want to know your worth in this world, make a list of the people who will starve when you die.… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“No deception lasts forever. Truth rises like good bread dough.” — Stephen P. Kiernan Deception Copy Share Image
“All through those years of war, the bread tasted of humiliation.” — Stephen P. Kiernan Humiliation Copy Share Image
“Was there always to be someone who, by comparison, made your circumstances seem fortunate?” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps slavery is harder for a person who has known freedom. Perhaps it does not matter. The” — Stephen P. Kiernan Freedom Copy Share Image
“Are you with the Resistance?” “No. I am simply trying to survive, and to help those I can.” Fleur” — Stephen P. Kiernan Resistance Copy Share Image
“If you see God,” she said finally, “ask Him why He stopped loving us.” Emma” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“My literary references seem right, but no one around me is well read enough to correct any errors.” — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Kate, I imagine that very few people reach the end of their lives and regret having spent too many hours relaxing beside… — Stephen P. Kiernan Ocean Copy Share Image
“If God exists, He is resting comfortably on the ocean’s far shore, reclining in plump chairs beside our so-called Allies, who have… — Stephen P. Kiernan Art Copy Share Image
“Our challenge is to live with all the sincerity that is in our hearts, and hope that those who doubt will come… — Stephen P. Kiernan Sincerity Copy Share Image
“My mother died halfway when they shot my father. Then almost halfway more, after what the soldiers did to her. Today was… — Stephen P. Kiernan Mother Copy Share Image
“The memory still made her blush, though in the many months since then, the thrill in her heart had been replaced entirely… — Stephen P. Kiernan Adventure Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was that simple: she helped the hungry, she fed an animal. One creature’s weed was another creature’s breakfast, and thus… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“And what is life but a little row in a small boat, every moment leaving what we know, every stroke unable to… — Stephen P. Kiernan Every moment Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that was one of the flaws of the faith: life’s pleasures were all sins, as if the senses were the enemy… — Stephen P. Kiernan Faith Copy Share Image
“a lifetime’s worth of narratives happening at once—the television. At first I was amazed. Soon I found it predictable, however, and dulling… — Stephen P. Kiernan Money Copy Share Image
“Even now, the angling of the light into this room. The curl of the curtain as it falls from a slackening breeze.… — Stephen P. Kiernan Existence Copy Share Image
“Some days, the bread turned out perfectly. The dough was responsive, the oven consistent, the results superior. Some days, events conspired to… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“After all, what is love but the desire to know another person as thoroughly and deeply as possible? Every quirk and passion,… — Stephen P. Kiernan Desire Copy Share Image
“When Emma was fifteen Uncle Ezra had taught her reduction, boiling a full pot of beef or chicken stock down to a… — Stephen P. Kiernan Investing Copy Share Image
“Romantic memories were an indulgence she could not afford. Washing” — Stephen P. Kiernan Love Copy Share Image
“A man could be outwardly obedient, but tardiness revealed his inner determination, proof that slavery affects only the body. It does not… — Stephen P. Kiernan Slavery Copy Share Image
“I heard obscenities everywhere, as though the world were populated entirely by longshoremen... Had no one told them that coarseness lacks dignity?” — Stephen P. Kiernan Respect Copy Share Image
“Fear, they learned, did not live in the heart or mind. It inhabited the stomach like a bad oyster. There was nothing… — Stephen P. Kiernan Fear Copy Share Image
