“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Family
― The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Family
“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Gift from the Sea
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Gift from the Sea
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