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“We’re all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren’t your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy.”
― Circling the Sun
― Circling the Sun
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us for ever.”
― Circling the Sun
― Circling the Sun
“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Oh." It seemed I'd surprised him. "There isn't a lot of that kind of thinking around here."
"Of course there is," I told him, trying to draw a smile. "It's just usually a man who's doing it.”
― Circling the Sun
"Of course there is," I told him, trying to draw a smile. "It's just usually a man who's doing it.”
― Circling the Sun
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