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“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“How unfair it was for someone to survive the vengeance of their god and then suffer like this at the hands of someone so mortal, so essentially small.”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”
― Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“Não posso deixar de escrever um último parágrafo, para lembrar que a língua, por mais poética que possa ser, tem também uma dimensão política de criar, fixar e perpetuar relações de poder e de violência, pois cada palavra que usamos define o lugar de uma identidade. No fundo, através das suas terminologias, a língua informa-nos constantemente de quem é normal e de quem é que pode representar a verdadeira condição humana.”
― Grada Kilomba, Plantation Memories

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.”
― Edwidge Danticat

“Nationalism always works overtime to create its own reality”
― Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

“They don't realize evil lives on their streets”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“I heard her say once that though many a man was worth a tumble, there wasn't one in a hundred was worth living with”
― M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli

“I died as mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was human,
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die human,
To soar with angels blessed above.
And when I sacrifice my angel soul
I shall become what no mind ever conceived.
As a human, I will die once more,
Reborn, I will with the angels soar.
And when I let my angel body go,
I shall be more than mortal mind can know.”
― Rumi Jalal ad'Din

“If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up.

If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
― Nancy Pearl

“History crawls along on the peg legs of small individual lives,” said Frex, “and at the same time larger eternal forces converge. You can’t attend to both arenas at once.” “Our child may not have a small life.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West