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If I could return as a ghost, there are so many people, beginning with the judge of the Court of Cassation, that I would like to terrify. It would be wonderful to scare them witless and make them grovel.
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Kanno Sugako (Reflexiones de camino a la horca)
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In her world survival was more important than honesty.
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John Grisham (Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3))
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What is discovery?” she asked. “Both sides get to poke around in the other’s case. Live depositions, written interrogatories, document swaps, the like.
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John Grisham (Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3))
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denied that President Jefferson had kept Ms. Hemings as his concubine, in spite of ample anecdotal evidence. DNA testing resolved the issue in 1998 when one of his descendants was genetically linked to one of hers.
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John Grisham (Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3))
John Grisham (Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3))
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From 1737 to 1771, Mr. Fancher’s three ships made 228 voyages across the Atlantic and delivered about 110,000 kidnapped slaves to American markets, primarily Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah. He was considered to be the largest American slave trader and became very rich.
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John Grisham (Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3))
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When the ghosts of past fears rise up, seeking to tether you to old wounds, do not feed them with your anxiety. Instead, call forth the courage within, the quiet strength that knows how to stand firm in the face of uncertainty. Let your heart open wide, unburdened by the weight of what has been, so that it may welcome the unknown with grace.
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Alma Camino
John Grisham (Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3))
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It was just bad luck.
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John Grisham (Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3))
John Grisham (Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3))
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I have taken to thinking that to repent is to recognise that one has changed to the extent that one is no longer the person who committed some past wrong (the butterfly did not eat the cabbage leaf). Forgiveness is to accept that change has happened in another person (I see you’re no longer a caterpillar). I don’t think repentance is saying sorry. I don’t think forgiveness is responding to an apology with a ‘that’s OK’. I think repentance is when one recognises that one has become another person. I think forgiveness is accepting that the one who wronged you no longer exists, and that they are now a different person. And so, lying in my bunk, I think about all those ghosts against whom I bear grudges; memories of people who no longer exist. Have they moved on? They must have. Have I? I need to. They are no longer those people. I am no longer the person they knew. I understand that. I accept that. I repent and they are forgiven.
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Paul McGranaghan (Northbound: 30 Days on the Camino Portugués (and onwards to Finesterre))
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Just part of my job,” Bruce said with a smile. “Reading great books, drinking great wine.
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John Grisham (Camino Ghosts (Camino Island, #3))