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Lauren Groff

Brief Bio: American novelist and short story writer

Lived: 1978-

For further info: laurengroff.com

Quotes:

“Her faith had twisted very early in her childhood”

And it was true, the religion she was raised in had always seemed vaguely foolish to her, if rich with mystery and ceremony, for why should babies be born into sin, why should she pray to the invisible forces, why would god be a trinity, why should she, who felt her greatness hot in her blood, be considered lesser because the first woman was molded from a rib and ate a fruit and thus lost lazy Eden? It was senseless. Her faith had twisted very early in her childhood; it would slowly grow ever more bent into its geometry until it was its own angular, majestic thing.

2021 from the novel Matrix

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“Safe in the hands of a force far greater”

For it is a deep and human truth that most souls upon the earth are not at ease unless they find themselves safe in the hands of a force far greater than themselves.

2021 from the novel Matrix

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