Jacob Have I Loved | Quotes

Jacob Have I Loved Quotes

"And from the center of the back row Caroline's voice came suddenly like a single beam of light across the darkness…Then we were all singing, better than we had all night, better than we ever has, suddenly judged, damned, and purged in Caroline's light." Chapter 3, pg. 38.

"Only on the water was there peace." Chapter 6, pg. 82.

"I was angry. What right had she, a grown woman, who had lived through many storms, to carry on like that" Chapter 10, pg. 134.

" There was, then, no use struggling or even trying. It was god himself who hated me. And without cause. "Therefore" verse eighteen had gone on to rub it in, "hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will hardeneth." God had chosen to hate me. And if my heart was hard, that was his doing as well." Chapter 15, pg.196.

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