“Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.’ Isn’t that worth learning, Aunt Jimsie?”
― Anne of The Island
― Anne of The Island
“...rosy cheeks don't last forever, that silver threads will come in the bonnie brown hair, and, that by and by, kindness and respect will be as sweet as love and admiration now.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“Won't you try to remember you're a lady? she pleaded. "Oh, if there were only any hope of being able to forget it”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“But if man, as in our society, advances only towards physical love, even though he surrounds it with deceptions and with the shallow formality of marriage, he obtains nothing but licensed vice.”
― The Kreutzer Sonata
― The Kreutzer Sonata
“even a person raised in captivity learns to want, yearns to see beyond their cage. How much of our humanity is intrinsic? How much remains, when all else is stripped away?”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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