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“All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that if they were ever to be played in front of an audience of people we know and love, would cause us to shrivel in shame”
― Laurinda
― Laurinda
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
― I Have a Dream
― I Have a Dream
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
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“People, even well-intentioned people, were always trying to take away our quiet little successes and joys and replace them with big, overarching fears.”
― Laurinda
― Laurinda
“I'd seen how the top-performing girls at Laurinda were cultivated like hothouse strawberries - bright and lush. Out in the real world, they would bruise. I wanted to see how the Cabinet would cope in two years' time, when they would be in the same classes as my most driven and hard-working Christ Our Saviour friends, and the most tenacious and gifted public school students, the hardy banksias and olive trees and root vegetables that would last all through winter.”
― Laurinda
― Laurinda
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