“Live free or die.”
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<b>SACRED MYSTERIES</b><br><br>Following the death of his wife, Tom Webster travels to Jerusalem in search of a friend from his college days. But the haunted city, divided by warring religious groups, offers him no refuge from guilt and grief.<br><br>As he wanders through the streets and the archaeological sites, a mysterious old woman appears to him, delivering messages that seem beyond comprehension. Then a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, kept hidden by an elderly innkeeper, appears to offer the key to understanding the woman's pronouncements.<br><br>Perhaps the spirit of Mary Magdelene is trying to reveal to Tom the hidden history of the Resurrection. And perhaps the truth is even stranger...<br>
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“Live free or die.”
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“With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and decipher...”
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“That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.”
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“We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.”
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“But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”
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“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
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“Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.”
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“They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step f...”
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“Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end...”
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