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“Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House,”
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
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“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”
― Water for Elephants
― Water for Elephants
“Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
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“That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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