“That’s what scares me—not being happy,” I elaborate. “Settling. Being complacent.”
“Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
“It's not time to worry yet”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
-Atticus Finch”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
-Atticus Finch”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to buy it with.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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