"The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job."
"Habits are powerful but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize- they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense." ?
"Kino, this pearl is evil. Let us destroy it before it destroys us. Let us crush it between two stones. Let us - let us throw it back in the sea where it belongs. Kino, it is evil, it is evil." ???
"James: And Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with an angel until the breaking of the day; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him; and the angel said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And Jacob said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Amen." ?✋?
"He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear... Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed." ?????
"Lennie said, 'I thought you were mad at me, George.'"
"'No,' said George. 'No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's the thing I want ya to know.'" ??
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