David Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars (1994)

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Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

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That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty.

David Guterson
Accident rules every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

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How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love's illusion. And yet — on the other hand — what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt?

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To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.

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There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can.... Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

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None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

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The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

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He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.

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The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto's long-cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them. All human claims to the landscape were superseded, made null and void by the snow. The world was one world, and the notion that a man might kill another over some small patch of it did not make sense.

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You should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart - or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this - silence is better.

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