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Sarah C. Patten
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Sarah C. Patten
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The Measure of Gold
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2020
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3 editions
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“Betrayal, it was the most solitary word of all, beyond abandonment, beyond torture, beyond hatred. It was the human act that cut the most deeply, splintering north from south and east from west.”
― The Measure of Gold
― The Measure of Gold
“They had spent whole summers collecting other ingredients from the forest— micah, chalk, the resin of a pine tree, lichen, some wax, and a drop of dew. After a long and belabored search, Penelope had even discovered some locust wings in the piles of dust beneath her father’s unkempt desk. She had been mixing strange scientific and alchemical potions with her father for as long as she could remember.”
― The Measure of Gold
― The Measure of Gold
“Think, Penelope, Fulcanelli blurted out. We don't have time for this. You see, humans are the weakest of all the animals because we so rarely see a clear purpose for ourselves.”
― The Measure of Gold
― The Measure of Gold
“Think, Penelope, Fulcanelli blurted out. We don't have time for this. You see, humans are the weakest of all the animals because we so rarely see a clear purpose for ourselves.”
― The Measure of Gold
― The Measure of Gold
“It's so easy for humans to blame God for their misery, Manfri said. Really, it's mostly of their own making.”
― The Measure of Gold
― The Measure of Gold
“Perhaps the loss of your voice has more to do with your heart than your throat. The grotto's water can only fix wounds of the flesh that are unhealed, not wounds of the heart. Trust me. I have tried to heal my heart there many times.”
― The Measure of Gold
― The Measure of Gold
“The golden pill was more solvent than medicine, dissolving self, reversing the tide of opposites, like only knowing the alphabet from finish to start, z to a.”
― The Measure of Gold
― The Measure of Gold
“Happiness was not the only virtue. After all, loneliness wrote great symphonies and could paint masterpieces. It was the imperfections and miseries that necessitated the magic.”
― The Measure of Gold
― The Measure of Gold
