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Quotes by Author
"She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it."
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"It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy."
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"There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness."
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"If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains."
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"The NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know..."
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"When you love someone, you become immune to the hurt they cause you. You don't love hoping to get something in return, you love because you have to. In its extreme form, it is a need to give, not a need to get."
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"I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman."
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"But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get."
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"There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness."
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"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."
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"Your power depends on how much time you spend fellowshipping with God."
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"We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled."
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"The doorbells of Heaven were designed for the prayers of the poor."
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"I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek surface. The sight has the appeal of the purely passive, like the racing of light under clouds on a field, the beautiful dream at the moment of being dreamed. The breeze is the merest puff, but you yourself sail headlong and breathless under the gale force of the spirit."
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"Understanding what it means to die, to sever oneself of the foolish hope for immortality, is what allows human beings the capability to appreciate simple pleasures and endure whatever hardships living a full life requires. Eternity is beautiful whereas time is unredeemable and problematic. Our faith, our hopes, and our love exist only in points of time. We discover eternity by avoiding the snares of prejudice and mental delusion, using the memory of whole civilizations to understand the past, and employing human consciousness to transcend fluctuations in time."
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"And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention."
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"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."
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"Being a mother is not about 'birthing a child into the world.' Rather, it is about repeatedly 'birthing into the child' a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother."
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
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"I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me."
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"Life is an individual race."
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"They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash."
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"Happiness is something we create ourselves. To our eyes, the sun appears to rise in the east every day to create a brilliant morning for the earth. The sun, however, does not create the morning alone: the earth also creates it actively as it rotates every day. We shouldn't just wait for happiness, either. Happiness doesn't come when we wait for it: we make it ourselves."
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"Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child's definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition."
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"If someone's beliefs are fixed and false, he or she can do anything to justify their beliefs."
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"The concept of work should be understood diligently."
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"Darkness, that is, ignorance, limits our visibility."
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"Stairs to success are made of people."
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"My mother overstated the dangers of the world " invented threats. And so I saw: Starbursts' hoof-made gelatin never gave me mad cow. Mad cow was not a threat to me. And so I thought: most risks weren't truly real."
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"The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest."
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"If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me."
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"As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains."
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"As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man's character."
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"The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it."
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"I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing."
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"Do all the good you can while you still have the opportunity."
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