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“…it is one thing to be treasured and it is another to be a treasure. One is valued, one is possessed, and people aren’t possessions.”

“We were quiet then, caught in the tangle of mercy and justice and which was which.”

“I do not know what the future holds or where I will find the stamina to continue. But if we have won the war, as some believe, I will call myself blessed for the gifts—gifts Deacon Thomas thought wasted on a woman—that have brought me before great men.”

“I was accepted as a man because for me to be a woman was unfathomable.”

“Do you think it means all men? And women too? All mankind? Because either it is true for all, or it is true for none. A man cannot be given “certain unalienable rights” and then say they are only unalienable for some. Reverend Conant says “unalienable” means that they are not given by man but by God, by the nature of our mere existence.”

“I was still careful. I was growing up in a house full of boys who were endlessly curious about what I was scribbling, and I knew better than to write anything that would devastate me were someone to read it. I resented that, but I had never been a fool. To be a fool required a level of fantasy no one had ever indulged in me. The only privacy I truly had was in the space between my ears.”