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“Do you have any other advice?" asked the boy.

"Don't measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated," said the horse.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other,’ he said, ‘and then take it back.’

‘I can,’ she said. ‘Life’s a bastard.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“sometimes," said the horse.
"sometimes what?" asked the boy.
"Sometimes just getting up and carrying on is brave and magnificent.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse