Julie Orringer Quotes

• I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

  Julie Orringer

  Hate, People, God Love

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• Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

  Julie Orringer

  Mean, Mit, Stones

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• And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

  Julie Orringer

  What If, Stories, Failing

  Julie Orringer (2010). “The Invisible Bridge”, p.17, Vintage

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• Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

  Julie Orringer

  Practice, Hunger, Easier

  Julie Orringer (2010). “The Invisible Bridge”, p.73, Vintage

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• The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

  Julie Orringer

  Way, Stones, Sometimes

  Julie Orringer (2007). “How to Breathe Underwater”, p.97, Vintage

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• Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

  Julie Orringer

  Responsibility, Men, Dust

  FaceBook post by Julie Orringer from Jan 17, 2017

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• It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

  Julie Orringer

  Like Love, Done, Crumbling

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• There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

  Julie Orringer

  Love Is, Asks

  Julie Orringer (2010). “The Invisible Bridge”, p.73, Vintage

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• You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one whose revelations thrilled and terrified you, and whose raw, hard-earned wisdom remade the way you saw the world. It evokes the genius of Angela Pneumans canonical progenitors: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy. Lay It on My Heart is a gorgeous, riveting, and unforgettable book.

  Julie Orringer

  Reading, Book, Heart

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