It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.
(Fall on Your Knees )
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As for sin. I honestly can't believe God is so bored or so lecherous as to care how close my body and its various parts get to someone else's various parts.Ann-Marie MacDonald
But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
For once, Frances is stripped of irony. She is in the presence of something bigger--namely Herself. Or at least the self implied by her new body. This is how the Blessed Virgin visits us. She inhabits our own flesh and makes love out of it. Nothing is ironic in the moment of first love. And Frances is in love. With her body, and what it is bringing forth.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
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