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“ Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, Because I had to. The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to. ”

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So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

~ Margaret George

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

~ Margaret George

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

~ Margaret George

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.

~ Margaret George