![]() ![]() For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Sarah Dunant, quote from The Birth of VenusīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, That now He was in me, and because of Father Bernard I would be warm forever.” I knew that God had been there when he died. I got out a piece of paper from his chest under the bed and drew him, lying there. ![]() I gave him the skin but his body was stiff. How His love could wake the dead and how with Him in one's heart one could heat the world. He laid me down on the bed next to him, wrapped me in an animal skin, then in his own arms. He said he didn't need them because God warmed him.īut even Father Bernard was cold that night. In winter he had fewer blankets than the others. He was so old his eyes his eyes looked as if he was crying. It was he who first gave me chalk and paper. But then the Stove went out.įather Bernard took me into his cell. I was small, thin, like a piece of birch bark. That night, they made me sleep next to the stove. ![]() ![]() He sank into a drift and took a long time to get up. Once the snow was so deep we couldn't get out of the doors to the woodshed. Sometimes the wind came from the sea with ice in it. ![]()
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