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A Thousand Letters (The Austens #2) by Staci Hart

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He touched my hand and wiped away the past. He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me back into his heart. He whispered to me in the dark and gave me hope.

“Every single one wants to matter. We want our lives, and our stories and the choices we made or didn’t make to matter.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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“It all matters. How we live matters. Do we choose love or do we choose hate? Do we help or do we harm? Because there is no way to know the exact second your life changes forever. You can only begin to know that moment by looking in the rearview mirror. And trust me when I tell you when you never, ever see it coming.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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“We have to make every ending be a happy ending.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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“Laurens, Lafayette, and Hamilton--all roughly the same age-- had become inseparable when they discovered they shared the conviction that all men should be free, including blacks.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

tags: alexander-hamilton, civil-rights, equal-rights, history-of-the-united-states, revolutionary-war

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“Despair was a choice. Hatred was a choice. Anger was a choice. I still had choices, and that knowledge rocked me. I may not have had as many Lester had, but I still had some choices. I could choose to give up or to hang on. Hope was a choice. Faith was a choice. And more than anything else, love was a choice. Compassion was a choice.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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