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“I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control.”
― Gillian Anderson

“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”
― Robert Crais

“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“One of the great moments of your life will be the first time you are able to maintain control of your own actions and responses when a difficult person is on the rampage. You can do it if you back off! Refuse to argue. Set your limits. Stand as an equal who has the upper hand. You can care about and feel pity for this person whose ugly behaviors cause such chaos, but you don’t have to let her control you.”
― Elizabeth B. Brown, Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People