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always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known.
This is a fictional account of 2 French sisters who risk their lives doing resistance work in WW2. It shows the compassion of the occupied people like those in The book thief by Marcus Zusac. Be prepared for the 5-star tears engendered by this book.
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“This is a magical place,” I said. “Everything shines here.” “You must stop yourself from thinking like that,” Dr. Kerry said, his voice raised. “You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYU, or even to that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was.”
― Educated
― Educated
“a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
― Educated
― Educated
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Sometimes it’s good to settle for the side-mirror view of life. Sometimes we don’t want to see the full picture.”
― Lola in the Mirror
― Lola in the Mirror
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