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I'm doing a placer here, since it's taking so long to read (which I hate, have to read slowly due to electronics causing migraines).As other reviewers have mentioned, this is a hymn (but also a how-) to martial arts. Fonda Lee is a great sff writer a ...more "
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Lolly Willowes
― Lolly Willowes
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
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“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
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“One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
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“Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.”
― First Frost
― First Frost
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