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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
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“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
― Little Bee
― Little Bee
“I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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