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Home. The word had layers of meaning. A place. An emotion. Memories.
“That Mack McGuire, he makes my heart flutter like a clean sheet on a long line.”
― The Giver of Stars
― The Giver of Stars
“We unveil ourselves in the pieces we want others to know, even those closest to us. We all have our secrets.”
― The Secrets We Kept
― The Secrets We Kept
“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
― The Rose Garden
― The Rose Garden
“My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right; we try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path.” He paused. “But the mountain is there to be crossed. It is on that pilgrimage, as we climb higher, that we are forced to shed the layers upon layers we have carried for so long. Then we find that our load is lighter and we have come to know something of ourselves in the perilous climb.”
― Pardonable Lies
― Pardonable Lies
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