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Even at the age of twenty-five, I appeared to be in my teens. Maybe it would be a blessing when I was an elderly woman, but for now, it was merely an inconvenience.
“To go from a familiar thing, however undesirable, into the unknown, is always a matter for apprehension, and I suppose that is why so many people are afraid to die.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
― Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
― Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“He doesn’t understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you’ve done, but from the things that others have done to you.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“People change two ways --- with slow persistent pressure, or with a single and sudden traumatic experience.”
― Touching Spirit Bear
― Touching Spirit Bear
“They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands washed and their gloves on, and their stories all prepared.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
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