“If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.”
― The Wizard of Oz Screenplay
― The Wizard of Oz Screenplay
“It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.”
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“This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.”
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“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.”
― Where I Was From
― Where I Was From
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