I realized there is nothing more astonishing than a human face.
You feel your obligation to a child when you have seen it and held it.
Any human face is a claim on you,
because you can’t help but understand the singularity of it,
the courage and loneliness of it.
the courage and loneliness of it.
But this is truest of the face of an infant.
I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.
Gilead, p. 66
"...there is nothing more astonishing than a human face
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Yes, the eyes are the light of the body, so faces are astonishing.