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And that’s what we must learn to deal with: Our place in a world that sees us as used up and irrelevant. This new generation looks only to the future, with little regard for the past and what it could teach them. What we could teach them.
“You ever consider that maybe you not supposed to 'fit'? People who make history rarely do.”
― Dear Martin
― Dear Martin
“You have special abilities,” she goes on. “I don’t mean you are a witch or a fox spirit. And you’ve never seemed drawn to the special gift of healing or magic. Rather, you are like A-ma Mata, who gave birth to the Akha people, who pushed against her restraints, who said, ‘No, I will not accept my bad fate,’ and who endured against all odds with her intelligence, compassion, and perseverance. All that comes from this grove. And the mother tree.” A-ma”
― The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
― The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“Maybe our lives are like gigantic jigsaw puzzles. You find the right piece and suddenly the whole picture has meaning.”
― The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
― The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“It’s said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one’s capacity for great joy.”
― The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
― The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“It's said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one's capacity for great joy. I see it from the opposite direction. I'm happy, but there's an empty space inside me that will never stop suffering from the loss of Yan-yeh.”
― The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
― The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
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