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"I hated them, the NKVD and the Soviets. I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all."

"Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch."

"Tell her I think she's a hero and I'm proud to say I know her."
"What do you mean, hero? she's not a hero, she just wants to live." Gita says with some annoyance.
"And that makes her a hero. Choosing to live is an act of defiance, a form of heroism."

"I will live to leave this place. I will walk out a free man. If there is a hell, I will see these murderers burn in it."

"Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow."

"There is only now and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years. I like living as if I only have that two days."

"Everything's a risk. Not doing anything's a risk. It's up to you."

Olly: Why do you like books so much?
Madeline: You can find the meaning of life in a book.
Olly: What book can you find the meaning of life in?
Madeline: OK, maybe not just a single book, but if you read enough you'll get there.

"I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness."

"Jerusha had an imagination that would get her into trouble if she didn't take care."
Already love this girl. 😊

"My friend Erin says we all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we're no good, that if we don't make this promotion or ace that exam we'll reveal to the world exactly what kind of worthless sacks of skin and sinew we really are. Maybe that's true. Maybe mine just have louder voices."

"We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs."
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She says, "When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?"

"What I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel."

- "Do you ever wish," whispers Werner, "that you didn't have to go back?"
+ "Father needs me to be at Schulpforta. Mother too. It doesn't matter what I want."
- "Of course it matters. I want to be an engineer. And you want to study birds. Be like that American painter in the swamps. Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?"

"No one stops him. No shells come whistling. Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be."

"A scientist's work is determined by two things. His interests and the interests of his time."

"Only through the hottest fires can purification be achieved."

"What is this?" he said at last.
"This is a child!" Haigha replied eagerly.
"I always thought they were fabulous monsters!" said the Unicorn.
"I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too! I never saw one alive before!" Alice replied.
"Well, now that we've seen each other, if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?" said the Unicorn.

"But I don't want to go among mad people; Alice remarked.
Oh, you can't help that; said the Cat: We're all mad here. I'm mad. you're mad. "

"When one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind."

Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map I would put my finger on it and say, 'when I grow up I will go there.'

He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them—the ship; and so is their country—the sea.

Jolly Roger is the traditional English name for the black flag of piracy. 💀

"There's no such thing as an afterlife. All that matters are the people who are left."

"There was nothing to fear outside, the danger was within."

"You were never the princess, you were never the passive beauty waiting for a prince, you were something else. you sided with darkness, with the wicked stepmother, the bad fairy, the witch."

"True love means that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be."

"His point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

Mom said that in college you can study anything you WANT, and all you need to succeed is a "curious mind".