Quotes from book
Libra

Name: Libra
Author: Don DeLillo

Libra is a 1988 novel by Don DeLillo that focuses on the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and offers a speculative account of the events that shaped the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

“That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation.”

Don DeLillo book Libra

Variant: What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
Source: Libra

“Facts are lonely things”

Don DeLillo book Libra

Source: Libra

“Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.”

Don DeLillo book Libra

Source: Libra

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