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Margaret

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The Water Is Wide

by Pat Conroy

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Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Margaret’s Quotes

“She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.”
― W.P. Kinsella, The Thrill Of The Grass

tags: baseball, curve-ball, foul, resilience

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“There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: self-sacrifice

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“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
― William Faulkner

tags: love

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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

tags: adult, childishness, maturity

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