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When you’re young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past.” She turned to stare out the window. After a long pause, she spoke again, her voice quivering in a way Liv had never heard before. “And the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.”
“And what was it General de Gaulle said? ‘Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and shall not die.’ This is our country, my dear, and I will fight for its honor to the end.”
It’s not the decisions in your past that matter, but the choices you make about your future.”
you can’t rewrite the past. But you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.”
Wouldn’t it be poetic, I thought, if the same spirit of resilience that inspired winemakers to stand up to nature and circumstance also prompted them to stand up to the Nazis?
After all, those tantalizing bubbles in your champagne represent a tradition of courage, a spirit of hope, and the lesson that if you continue to persevere against the odds, you might just make magic.
