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M.L. Stedman
“Mais comment? Comment fais-tu pour surmonter ça, mon chéri? lui avait-elle demandé. Tu as enduré tellement d'épreuves, mais tu es toujours content. Comment fais-tu?
-J'ai choisi de l'être, avait-il répondu. Je peux laisser ruiner mon passé, consacrer mon temps à haïr les gens pourc e qu'ils m'ont fait, comme mon père l'a fait, ou je peux pardonner et oublier.
-Mais ce n'est pas si facile."
Il avait sourit, de son sourire de Franck.
"Oui, mais, Trésor, c'est tellement moins fatigant; Il suffit de pardonner une fois. Tandis que la rancune, il faut l'entretenir à longueur de journée, et recommencer tous les jours. Il faudrait que je fasse une liste pour m'assurer que je hais bien tous ceux qui m'ont causé du tort. Non, avait-il ajouté, on a tous la possibilité de pardonner.”
M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

Katherine Paterson
“Ow,” she said. It didn’t hurt so much as surprise her. “See this?” he said, lifting her arm up where he’d pinched it. “See this stuff here? This is the stuff of stars.”
Katherine Paterson, The Same Stuff As Stars: A Coming-of-Age Story of Hope and Perseverance for Children

David Wroblewski
“there are times you need a roof, and there are times you need a road.”
David Wroblewski, Familiaris

Diane Merrill Wigginton
“Chase looked like a drowning man without a life preserver, and by the look in his eyes, he was going under for the third time.

“I knew you would be like the waters of the South Pacific Ocean.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“I liken people to different bodies of water,” he quickly explained.

“You what?”

“Each ocean has a different personality,” he said to clarify. “The Pacific Ocean is warmer and inviting, but the color is muddied in places. The Arctic Ocean is cold and very uninviting, one might even say that it is not very appealing, but it’s full of life. Then there is the South Pacific Ocean, warm, inviting, and crystal clear. It has this purity to it. Why, the coloring of the water is some of the brightest blue I’ve ever seen in my entire life. There are even places that you can see thirty meters down.”
Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

Susanna Kaysen
“We ate with plastic. It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital.”
Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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