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“Learn from your past and be better because of your past,” she would say, “but don’t cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don’t hold on to it. Don’t be bitter.”
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Agatha Christie
“Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.

-"The Blood-Stained Pavement”
Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems

Kathryn Stockett
“I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.”
Kathryn Stockett

Harper Lee
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Jane Austen
“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
Jane Austen

P.D. James
“If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”
P.D. James

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