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Book cover for Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
There was a Ukrainian woman at the market selling big red apples. ‘Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for ...more
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Elizabeth Wein
“But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.”
Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein
“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”
Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

Terry Tempest Williams
“For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . .

When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.”
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Maud Hart Lovelace
“We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house.”
Maud Hart Lovelace, Emily of Deep Valley

Maurice Sendak
“May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles?"
"Everything." They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda stopped to look when Jennie opened her bag.
"You do have everything."
"I have even more," Jennie said modestly. "Two windows that I left at home.”
Maurice Sendak, Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

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