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“She'd observed this before: how -- ironically -- it took death to make one feel momentarily alive, truly present, minute to minute.”
― Brad Kessler, Birds in Fall

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Is this why women wear heels? thought Jane. We hobble ourselves so we can still be rescued by men?”
― Shannon Hale, Austenland

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling