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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
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"I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher."
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"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of."
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"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
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"My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on."
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"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."
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"Did you ever love someone," Lucy says, "and know they love you, and you're attracted to them, and you know they're attracted to you, and so many things are exactly right, but it doesn't matter, because the few things that are wrong are completely, totally fucked?"
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"Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up at Nash's feet and dropped from the saddle. The two brothers threw their arms around each other and embraced hard.Shortly thereafter he stepped into the healing rooms and leaned in the doorway, looking across at her quietly. Brocker's son with the gentle gray eyes.She abandoned all pretense of decorum and ran at him."
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"Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?"
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"For most of the process, nothing but faith, fueled by your own stubbornness, will be pulling you along. The work that you've done on the book so far won't be much comfort, because so much of it will be insufferable crap, until the very last moment, when you figure out how to fix it and everything comes together."
Persistence
"If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock."
Judgment
"Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake."
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"He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak."
Strength
"Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart."
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"I wonder if it's meant to be punishment for something one can't forgive oneself for. Or an external expression, Lady Queen, of an internal pain? Or perhaps it's a way to realise that you actually do want to stay alive."
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"Truths are dangerous," he said."Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear."
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