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During the course of the meal, Maureen became less folksy, primmer. She sat erect, talking about how she homeschooled her children right here on Lavender Island, and taught them to live righteously.
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
― Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
― Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
“Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.”
― The Magicians
― The Magicians
“The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.”
― Tell the Wolves I'm Home
― Tell the Wolves I'm Home
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