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“Vianne was thankful for the bell. She was a teacher, for God’s sake. What did she know to say about dangers such as these? How could she assuage a child’s fear when her own was straining at the leash?”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.”
― Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World

“A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being