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“Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”
― Mariana
― Mariana
“A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.”
― The Last Light of the Sun
― The Last Light of the Sun
“Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”
― The Game of Kings
― The Game of Kings
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