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“For us, bearers of life, to murder for ideals is the worst aberrataion created by humankind. Mothers capable of generating life could never become accomplices to so much death.”
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“Truth is a strange companion. It devastates one moment and enthralls the next. But it never deceives. And because of that, in the end, it comforts.”
― Secrets of a Charmed Life
― Secrets of a Charmed Life
“The sun had pulled its socks up and was making a good effort in the almost cloudless winter sky,”
― Dear Mrs. Bird
― Dear Mrs. Bird
“Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.”
― Secrets of a Charmed Life
― Secrets of a Charmed Life
“My mother never gave in. One of Father's friends had once said that if Mother had been in charge, the Great War would have been over by 1916. Father had replied that if my mother had been in charge, she would have made damn sure the bloody thing hadn't started in the first place. Mother always said it wasn't just about keeping going, but about standing up for what you believed in as well.”
― Dear Mrs. Bird
― Dear Mrs. Bird
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