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    R.L. Stine
    “I can see ghosts.”
    ― R.L. Stine, The 12 Screams of Christmas
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    R.L. Stine
    “She wasn’t wearing a mask! The monstrous green face was her face. She wasn’t wearing a monster costume. None of the Horrors were wearing costumes, I realized. I stepped back, raising my hands in horror as if trying to shield myself.”
    ― R.L. Stine, One Day at Horrorland
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    R.L. Stine
    “But I wasn't feeling like a winner. I felt like an ugly freak.”
    ― R.L. Stine, My Hairiest Adventure
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    R.L. Stine
    “I always fixed beef for your father. But he only wanted pie.”
    ― R.L. Stine, Monster Blood
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    R.L. Stine
    “Cameras can only record what they see.”
    ― R.L. Stine, Say Cheese and Die!
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    R.L. Stine
    “I am sorry to say there will be no wedding today.”
    ― R.L. Stine, You May Now Kill the Bride
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    R.L. Stine
    “Watch. I’m going to make you read the next sentence. THE NEXT SENTENCE.”
    ― R.L. Stine, Diary of a Dummy
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    Beryl Markham
    “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
    ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night
    tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, future, home, homelessness, leaving, memories, memory, moving-on, past, reminiscence, roots, uncertainty
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    Pascal Mercier
    “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
    ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
    tags: home, identity, leaving, life, moving-on, past, travel
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    James Baldwin
    “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind
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    Noel Langley
    “If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.”
    ― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay
    tags: contentment, desire, home, satisfaction
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him like a flood.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Everything is made out of Magic,”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “You are real, aren’t you?” he said. “I have such real dreams very often. You might be one of them.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden: A Musical Drama for Children
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    Joan Didion
    “The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.”
    ― Joan Didion, Where I Was From
    tags: genealogy, history
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.”
    ― Michael Chrichton
    tags: genealogy, history
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    Liam Callanan
    “We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.”
    ― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas
    tags: ancestors, death, ghosts, liam-callanan, the-cloud-atlas
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    grace gegenheimer
    “I carry within me
    the heart of a warrior,
    the mind of a pharaoh,
    the soul of a goddess
    and the wisdom of
    my grandmothers'
    grandmothers.”
    ― grace gegenheimer
    tags: ancestors, empowered, goddess, grandmother, strong-woman, warrior, woman, womanhood
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    Jenny Slate
    “I am that mysterious stranger that I hoped to meet. I met her at a dark dance. We came here to live together until I could stay by myself. The place is here. The time is now. This is all my lifetime.”
    ― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
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    Jenny Slate
    “As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain and more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me love.”
    ― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
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    Jenny Slate
    “It is a certain type of person who feels this way that I feel, and I'm proud to be one, and now I see that I must really not forget that the style of what I find beautiful is incredible to me, that it is incredible to feel lucky to want to want what one wants, to be able to see the rings of yourself this way.”
    ― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
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    Jenny Slate
    “I’m tired of looking for a place in another.”
    ― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
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    Jenny Slate
    “I want to look out a window at something bright and wide, and at that point accept my nature and understand my intended use and have a clean shirt and clean hands and feel similar to a small planet.”
    ― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
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    Jenny Slate
    “And sometimes I enact destruction just to reenact my faith that things can be built up again. But I’m trying to stop the first part of that and just have the faith.”
    ― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
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    Rick Bragg
    “This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.”
    ― Rick Bragg
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    Rick Bragg
    “It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.”
    ― Rick Bragg
    tags: poverty, success
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