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“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“—you have too good a mind to throw away. I don’t quite know what we’re doing on this insignificant cinder spinning away in a dark corner of the universe. That is a secret which the high gods have not confided in me. Yet one thing I believe and I believe it with every fiber of my being. A man must live by his lights and do what little he can and do it as best he can. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.” She”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“A year turned into several years, and several years turned into all the years. One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it's happened.”
― Fredrick Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“I have experienced many terrible things in my life, and some of them have actually happened.”
― Elizabeth Helen Ivory, It's Not Your Fault!: Because you’re not choosing!