“You been too strong,” she said firmly. “I know about that. Strong starts out being the right thing. Your hands grow strong enough for your work. Your back strengthens under your burdens. Soon your mind becomes strongest of all; has to be to get through the hard days. ”
- Serafina
Ashes: Seeds of America - Laurie Halse Anderson”
― Ashes
- Serafina
Ashes: Seeds of America - Laurie Halse Anderson”
― Ashes
“If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?”
― Chains
― Chains
“I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. Waiting and waiting and waiting . . .”
― Chains
― Chains
“Don't forget how to be gentle," she warned. "Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. The greatest strength of all is daring to love.”
― Ashes
― Ashes
“Don't forget how to be gentle," she warned. "Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart.”
― Ashes
― Ashes
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