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“Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to
pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind?
Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
― The Arbitrator
― The Arbitrator
“Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience?”
― The Federalist Papers
― The Federalist Papers
“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.”
― The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
― The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
“We can be beacons of light”
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
“If I look closely, I can almost see myself floating in my mother's palm. Yet, when I shut my eyes, I find a different image of my mother releasing me as we dance in the storm and twirl in separate circles that cause the water to ripple from us in widening rings which merge in one ebbing bracelet of waves where the borders of the quarry meet the water, far from the center where my mother and I continue to spin our bodies in the radiant sheen of lightning.”
― Floating in My Mother's Palm
― Floating in My Mother's Palm
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