Carrie

“Responding to prejudice with prejudice will never do anything to change how things are in our country.”
― Ginny Dye, Shifted By The Winds

“In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm and 1984

“The culmination of every day, no matter what it holds, carries the promise that tomorrow will bring the rest of your life. Embrace what has come before. Embrace what is before you. In so doing, you will learn the joy of living. The joy of living…”
― Ginny Dye, The Last Long Night

“You have to look for the joy, Carrie. You have to choose to find it in the midst of the pain. You have to choose… Choose. Once again, Carrie chose to be stronger than the horrors in her life. “Okay, God,” she whispered. “I choose joy.”
― Ginny Dye, The Last Long Night