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"What happened? she asked, dropping to the damp ground beside Win. "Has Merripen been burned? "Yes, on his back. Win ripped a makeshift bandage from the hem of her own gown. "Beatrix, would you take this, please, and soak it in water? Without a word, Beatrix scampered to the trough at the handpump. Win stroked Merripen's thick black hair as he rested his head on his forearms. His breath hissed unevenly through his teeth. "Does it hurt, or is it numb? Amelia asked. "Hurts like the devil, he choked out. "That's a good sign. A burn is much more serious if it's numb. He turned his head to give her a speaking glance."
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"The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation."
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"I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God."
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"The difficulties of people should be our business."
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"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
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"To fight the poverty, we must feel the poverty."
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"When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house."
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"Demonstrate love to the people first, and then teach them to observe biblical principles."
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"One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is."
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"For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."
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"Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears."
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"I know when something is too important to be decided by logic."
Intuition
"But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or nothing. I won't be an invalid any longer. Not even if it means losing you."
Life
"She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love."
Love
"You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love."
Happiness
"The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk."
Love
"One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA."
Science
"I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?"Lillian shot her a withering glance. "Daisy, don't be a pea wit."
Humor
"The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore."
Relationship
"The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never know what adventures await." ... "So we're going to take this road," he murmured, "and see where it leads."
Adventure
"Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds."
Fate
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