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“Learning who we truly are on the inside gives us the confidence of being ourselves regardless of the place or person.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“Closed curtains subdued the storm noises, as if the cloth and glass really were a protective shell for Holywell.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

“Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“The stark truth was enough. It rearranged priorities and brought clarity, relief, and humor.”
― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison

“We were wasting time. She could try and arrest me and would fail.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

“One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.”
― Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

“Ao contrário do que dizem certos parisienses, o texto está aí não para dar prazer, mas o elevado desprazer ou prazer mais difícil que um texto menor não dará.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“But here’s what you have to remember: There are no homosexuals in Ireland. You might have got it into your head that you are one but you’re just wrong, it’s as simple as that. You’re wrong.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“When the bet is placed," he said, "a moment is carved away from the past and the future. In that enchanted moment, anything is possible. A man's debts and regrets and limitations disappear. He is buyin' the chance to imagine - for one moment at a time - that th enext card I deal will make him rich.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Doc

“Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
― Christopher Paolini

“Me, Mr Wiggins. Me. Me to take the cross. Your cross, Nannan's cross, my own cross. Me, Mr Wiggins. This old stumbling nigger. Y'all axe a lot, Mr Wiggins.”
― Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying

“Nonna was steady and safe and always took a strong lead.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

“The people have a right to know. And a right to protect themselves. I’m only doing my job.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”
― R.D. Ronald

“What could I do in the country, Frank? You want me to be a milkmaid or something. No, I’ll take my chances here, with you.”
― Mark Ellis, In the Shadows of the Blitz: A deeply captivating classic crime thriller

“You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!”
― Hermann Hesse

“God…give me the strength, give me the abilities to be the best I can be today. Bless me with courage, and bless me with strength. Bless me with the ability to be an example for everyone else. Let nobody see my fear or my weakness. I do my work in your name. Let me use the gifts you gave me to make this world a better place by the time the sun sets tonight.” ***”
― Ammar Habib, Memories Of My Future

“Nothing dies in Hell.”
― John Patrick Kennedy, Plague of Angels

“Entertaining a notion, like entertaining a baby cousin or entertaining a pack of hyenas, is a dangerous thing to refuse to do. If you refuse to entertain a baby cousin, the baby cousin may get bored and entertain itself by wandering off and falling down a well. If you refuse to entertain a pack of hyenas, they may become restless and entertain themselves by devouring you. But if you refuse to entertain a notion - which is just a fancy way of saying that you refuse to think about a certain idea - you have to be much braver than someone who is merely facing some blood-thirsty animals, or some parents who are upset to find their little darling at the bottom of a well, because nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But do you love him?"
Did I love him? Beyond the urges of the flesh? The hole had the dark anonymity of the confessional, and a soul on the verge of death had no time for lies.
"Yes," I said, and laid my head back on my knees.
It was silent in the hole for some time, and I hovered once more on the verge of sleep, when I heard her speak once more, as though to herself.
"So it's possible," she said thoughtfully.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“As she made coffee in the kitchen and tried to spoon the frozen ice-cream from its carton without snapping the shaft off the spoon, Elizabeth was struck, not for the first time, by the thought that her life was entirely frivolous.
It was a rush and slither of trivial crises; of uncertain cash-flow, small triumphs, occasional sex and too many cigarettes; of missed deadlines that turned out not to matter; of arguments, new clothes, bursts of altruism and sincere resolutions to address the important things. Of all these and the other experiences that made up her life, the most significant aspect was the one suggested by the words 'turned out not to matter'. Although she was happy enough with what she had become, it was this continued sense of the easy, the inessential nature of what she did, that most irritated her. She thought of Tom Brennan, who had known only life or death, then death in life. In her generation there was no intensity.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong