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My father always told me that a person is made up of all the little choices they make in life. The choices no one ever sees.
“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the apple trees.”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty
“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty
“She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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