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Unto Us a Son Is Given
Donna Leon (Author of Unto Us a Son Is Given)

“As he started down towards his office, Brunetti thought about how taking a look at one’s unconscious motives and prejudices was like walking barefoot through cloudy water: you never knew whether you were going to step on something disgusting or bang your toe into a rock.” (Unto Us a Son Is Given Quotes)

Donna Leon
Unto Us a Son Is Given

“He heard footsteps coming from the kitchen and turned to see his wife approaching. In that instant he wanted to take some sort of emotional photograph so that he could, sometime in the future when things were different, pull it out of his memory and look at it and say, ‘I’ve lived a happy life’.”

Donna Leon
Unto Us a Son Is Given

“It would be nice if we could choose the people we love, but love chooses them.”

Donna Leon
Unto Us a Son Is Given

“Patta would have fallen upon these details as a beast upon prey and torn into them in an attempt to find nourishment.”

Donna Leon
Unto Us a Son Is Given

“They hadn’t lived long enough to understand what grace it was to die in an instant and not to linger.”

Donna Leon
Unto Us a Son Is Given

“We choose to love people despite their flaws and weaknesses. We train ourselves to overlook or ignore them; sometimes these failures of character even fill us with a special kind of tenderness that has nothing whatsoever in it of a sense of superiority. Like bombs, these flaws tick quietly through our lives, and theirs, until we learn to ignore them, and then forget them. Until some unlikely impossibility causes them to explode, when finally we recognize how dangerous these people are and have been all along.”

Donna Leon
Unto Us a Son Is Given

“We train ourselves to overlook or ignore them; sometimes these failures of character even fill us with a special kind of tenderness that has nothing whatsoever in it of a sense of superiority.”

Donna Leon
Unto Us a Son Is Given

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