Martine Leavitt Quotes

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• These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world.…
• If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but…
• I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him…
• Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she…
• And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be…
• ...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she knew that her true love…
• Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something…
• Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.
• Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of…
• It is life that hurts you not death.
• When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death  And when winter is at…
• His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he speaks, the most…
• Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.
• You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home." "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my dower, Lord Death;…
• Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.
• You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

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