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“You cannot have a perfect heart in this world, but you can let virtue master the wicked intentions that creep up and call out. That is as much a discipline as a desire. Discipline shapes desire.”
― S.D. Smith, Jack Zulu and the Girl with Golden Wings

“Mendax, mendax, bracae tuae conflagrant,”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“What rhymes with smile?” “Bile, as in Your smile makes me want to throw up.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks / The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / The Penderwicks at Point Mouette

“You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.”
― Polly Horvath, One Year in Coal Harbor