“Passion is a thunderstorm, there and gone. It nourishes, si, but it drowns, too.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Courage is fear you ignore.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“As we know, there are lessons to be learned from history. Hope to be derived from hardships faced before. We've gone through bad times before and survived, even thrived. History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit, In the end, it is our idealism and our courage and our commitment to one another--what we have in common--that will save us.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“Apparently you couldn’t stop loving some people, or needing their love, even when you knew better.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
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