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“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays