Quotes About Community

Amazing grace, amazing grace.…" sang one group in unison, rocking back and forth as they held their places in line. "Gloria, in excelsus deum!" burst from a long-bearded man with his arms outstretched.

And I thought, Yes, this is true of us, this is why we must love one another, because we are each an entire world.

And believe me when I say you will survive this, and that you must for all of us. You will survive because you always have and you always will.

There were so many of us, bound together by love, in the Talamasca, and each one is a special case.

One thing we can give each other is our history.

We could not bear to live alone! We needed our little company! A wilderness of mortals surrounded us, groping, blind, preoccupied, and the brides and bridegrooms of death.

Can you picture it?' she said so softly I scarcely heard. 'A coven of children? That is all I could provide…

Lorraine McQueen is her name, and everyone hereabouts calls her Miss Queen or Aunt Queen.

So Aaron had become one of them, you might say." "Yes," she answered. "In all respects.

I opened my doors to any of the Undead who would wipe their boots before entering. It was like the old days in Venice, with Bianca's palazzo open to all ladies and gentlemen, indeed, to all artists, poets, dreamers and schemers who dared to present themselves, had come again.

You seek a family, always and everywhere.

We mean you no harm. We are scholars. We offer understanding. We offer shelter. We watch and we are always there.

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

Wasn't it amazing how resilient people were, how they persisted, how they kept trying to connect!

The truth was that lately, she had not had quite enough happening in her life. She and her husband had moved this past fall to a golfing community outside of Tucson. (Peter was passionate about golf. Willa didn't even know how to play.) She had had to leave behind an ESL teaching job that she loved, and she was hoping to find another one, but she hadn't exactly looked into that yet. She seemed to be sort of paralyzed

But what helped more was to walk down a crowded sidewalk sometimes, or through a busy shopping mall, and reflect that almost everyone there had suffered some terrible loss. Sometimes more than one loss. Many had lost their dearest loves, but look at them: they were managing. They were putting one foot in front of the other. Some were even smiling. It could be done.

Many of your fellow church members probably don't believe , either, but at least in church you put yourself in position for belief. Otherwise, you reduce the possibility.

You belong," he told her. "You belong just as much as I do, or, who, or Bitsy or Ã¢â'¬Â¦ It's just like Christmas. We all think the others belong more.

said, 'Many of your fellow members probably don't believe, either, but at least in church you put yourself in position for belief. Otherwise you reduce the possibility.' " "Good point," Willa said thoughtfully. "Yes, it was a good point. But I'd given it sixty-some years by then and I figured any further developments were unlikely.

these people are a family. See? They want to learn how families work and that's what they think these customers are. Get it?" "Got it," Willa said.

It's everything. I hate the heat; I hate the humidity; the accent is atrocious…I don't know what we're doing here." "Well, sweetheart? We're just helping Denise for a few days." "We don't even know Denise!

Amanda said, "Isn't it interesting: people never seem to bring liquor when somebody dies, have you noticed? Why not a case of beer? Or a bottle of really good wine? Just these everlasting casseroles, and who eats casseroles nowadays?

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About your son, she seemed to be saying: Just put your hand here. I'm scared, too. We're all scared. You're not the only one.