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White Rose, Black Forest

by Eoin Dempsey (Goodreads Author)

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Nov 17, 2019 05:44PM

“You're to come away at once, out of danger. I've got a motor-car and a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Château Peyraguey — which isn't a wine you've ever tasted, so don't pretend. It's heaven with strawberries.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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“Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

tags: inspirational-quotes

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“We don't have adoption issues, we have an issue with adoption.”
― Janine Myung-Ja, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

tags: adoptee-attitudes, adoptee-rights, adoptees, adoption, adoption-day, adoption-industry, adoption-search, adoption-system, adoption-truth, adoptionland

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“Jesus, Zack, will you stop kidding around? We’ve had one dinner.”
“Jesus? Name’s familiar … I can’t place it. Wasn’t he Jewish?”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith

tags: abuse-of-power, child-abuse, church, cover-up, emotional, justice, peadophilia, priest, religion, sexual-abuse

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“His thoughts went to Kismaayo, and lately, particularly of Abdi. If there were a hero in this story, it was Abdi. Jon thought, this young man from Maine had left that war weary husk of a country called Somalia and had come to these United States of America to pursue the dream of happiness, security, and hope.”
― Mike Bennett, Las Vegas on Twelve Dollars a Day

tags: action, educational, military, technical, war

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