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“When I go down the hall and find Maisie and Nell asleep in their twin beds, I see them both as they are and as they were: grown women and little girls.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Despair isn't very productive. That's the problem with it. Like a replicating virus, all despair can make is more of itself.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Winston Churchill told the House of Commons and the nation that they ‘must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.’ He did not deny that being expelled from the Continent was ‘a colossal military disaster’, but he did produce the most sublime passage of all his magnificent wartime oratory when he said: We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
― Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War — A New History of World War II

“Truman had studied enough history to put this moment in context. The United States had provided soldiers and a great majority of the tools of war that destroyed Nazism and saved Europe. The United States had defeated a Japanese military intent on dominating all of the Far East. In the eyes of the world, this was America’s finest hour. Never before had the United States achieved such prestige. What Truman did not know at this moment was this: never would the United States achieve such prestige again.”
― A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World