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"There was something indomitable about Maria " like Britannia. He'd heard that she kept her head during a Chilean earthquake the year before when men of greater age and experience had panicked. Afterwards she was discovered calmly taking notes, recording the way the land hand risen, for publication, she said."
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"When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again."
"I don't believe in failure. It is just the opportunity to start again with better information."
"Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally."
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."
"We only fall on our face to learn how to rise on our feet."
"Discouraging words should not weigh you down instead they should challenge you."
"Mrs. Allan's face was not the face of the girlbride whom the minister had brought to Avonlea five years before. It had lost some of its bloom and youthful curves, and there were fine, patient lines about eyes and mouth. A tiny grave in that very cemetery accounted for some of them; and some new ones had come during the recent illness, now happily over, of her little son. But Mrs. Allan's dimples were as sweet and sudden as ever, her eyes as clear and bright and true; and what her face lacked of girlish beauty was now more than atoned for in added tenderness and strength."
"You must never surrender to any defeat."
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal."
"Does your frustration equate a certain form of revenge?Bright light shines upon me despite of hills of frustration."
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"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."
"If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?"
"There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in " a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary."
"An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come."
"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."
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