"Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them……" — Martine Leavitt
"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 found the best sort of perfection--the kind that never demands it of others."
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Martine Leavitt
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16 Quotes by Martine Leavitt
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These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of…
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If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good…
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I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps…
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And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his…
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...the girl longed for a love that could not be ended by death. From the time she was young, she…
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Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the…
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Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.
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Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath…
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It is life that hurts you not death.
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When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death…
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His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that…
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Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.
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