"There is a fragrance in the air, a……" — Frederick Buechner
"There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?"
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Frederick Buechner
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169 Quotes by Frederick Buechner
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