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and others’ good impressions of him. But I have learned that the AA adage is true: you’re as sick as your secrets.
“My son, war is horrific and dehumanizing. It numbs us to suffering, pain, and death. Therefore, it requires average citizens to take extraordinary measures. For if we don’t do what we can to minimize the suffering of others, we will lose our humanity.”
― Finding Junie Kim
― Finding Junie Kim
“All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
“Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.”
― This Lullaby
― This Lullaby
“Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital truth: most people are trapped in a solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt.”
― Elsewhere
― Elsewhere
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