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“All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Not knowing is a good place to start.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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