“But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die”
― Golden Fool
― Golden Fool
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Once, when Giselle was alive, he thought about the future. Now he only thought about the past.”
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
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