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“Pretending you’re OK when you aren’t isn’t strength.”
“Well, that’s where you’re wrong,” Robin contradicted him. The champagne had fizzed on her tongue and seemed to give her courage even before it hit her brain. “Sometimes, acting as though you’re all right, makes you all right. Sometimes you’ve got to slap on a brave face and walk out into the world, and after a while it isn’t an act anymore, it’s who you are. If I’d waited to feel ready to leave my room after—you know,” she said, “I’d still be in there. I had to leave before I was ready.”
― Robert Galbraith, Lethal White

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados

“Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

“It was a glorious thing, to be given hope, when all had seemed lost.”
― Robert Galbraith, Lethal White