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Book cover for Grammar for a Full Life: How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us
I never had a reason to doubt that my mother adored me until she started writing letters to me at college. Mistakenly believing that quotation marks can be used for emphasis, she would close each letter with the line, “You know how much we ...more
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Gerald Durrell
“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
Gerald Durrell

Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

Dang Thuy Tram
“Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.”
Dang Thuy Tram

Lord Byron
“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
George Gordon Byron

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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