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“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.”
― Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance

“No matter how much time passes, those we have loved never slip away from us entirely.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“That sense of loss is exactly what we must anticipate, prepare for, and cherish to the last of our days; for it is only our heartbreak that finally refutes all that is ephemeral in love.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“In the end, a parent’s responsibility could not be more simple: To bring a child safely into adulthood so that she could have a chance to experience a life of purpose and, God willing, contentment.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“One must make ends meet,' confirmed Audrius matter-of-factly, 'or meet one's end.'

Richard studied the bartender for a moment.

'Well, that's the very essence of it, isn't it?”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life

“In Germany, there is no death penalty. “We can’t be trusted to kill people after what happened in World War II,” a German woman once told me. In America, the states that recorded the highest number of lynchings, among them the former Confederate States of America, all currently have the death penalty.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.”
― Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems

“I understand now that loneliness is worse if there are people about than if there are not.”
― Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

“You have a gift for finding joy in small moments, which is a thing I used to have, but have lost,”
― Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

“The sky was magnificent. I have always loved the sky and I do not take notice of it often enough.”
― Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

“We should look inside ourselves for fulfillment. It is not fair to burden children or grandchildren with the obligation to make us whole. Our obligation to them is to make them safe and provide them with an education. Karin can do that alone, if she chooses. She owes no one anything else. She owes it to herself to do what is best for her. When I had said this, Mary kissed me. I can’t remember the last time she did that. Or the last time I enjoyed a conversation more.”
― Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

“We may want to be other than we are, but we do not want to unsettle the opinion people have already formed; maybe to replace it with a lesser opinion.”
― Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

“I can see that living alone, as you do, leaves empty space around you, and that can feel lonely. Living together with other people, as I do, can feel lonely, too.”
― Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

“I was irritated by the simplicity of my mother’s view of the world when I was younger, but now that I know how hard it is to keep upright, cheerful, balanced, and in control, which is expected of us as adults, I can appreciate the mechanisms she used to achieve this.”
― Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

“When I look at Karin now, I wonder if I am suffering from post-traumatic joy.”
― Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

“After the ceremony we went to a hotel, and there was food (which I did not cook and therefore enjoyed)”
― Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum