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“Maeve, speak up. Don't expect that anyone will do you the favor of listening if you don't trouble yourself to use your voice.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“You can cling to this world for a thousand years and still be plucked out of it in a breath.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being