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“Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.”
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn’t give. He stays rigid. Doesn’t even try to listen, just lashes out.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“It turns out to be eminently useful to have a disgrace in your past; Salem endures not only as a metaphor but as a vaccine and a taunt. It glares at us when fear paralyzes reason, when we overreact or overcorrect, when we hunt down or deliver up the alien or seditious.”
― The Witches: Salem, 1692
― The Witches: Salem, 1692
“In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.”
― Here I Am
― Here I Am
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