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“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.”
― Birdee Pruitt - (Hope Floats)

“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“When you’re young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Winemaker's Wife

“learned far too late that life is simply about being good and decent to others. It’s as plain as that. But first, you must be good and decent to yourself. Find your own road. Find your own happiness. You must, my dear. You must, or you will wind up old and alone and full of regrets.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Winemaker's Wife

“you do with an unattainable crush once it’s yours to keep? What does it become? Should there perhaps be a word to describe it? Because that’s the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.”
― Lisa Jewell, Watching You

“We’d be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we’d become, or live with regret and disappointment.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing our youth, our beauty, and our bodies.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“Come the fall, I would be leaving for college and my mother would lose her little boy, and I would lose the person who had always been there for me, my fiercest advocate since the day I’d been born.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“That’s not to say she wasn’t sincerely happy for me, but with every new beginning, there is an inevitable end we must first accept, and my mother was struggling to accept that her boy had finished high school and would be leaving home in just a few short months.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“None of us are any one thing. We’re just a collection of the best and worst things we’ve done.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Tragedy has a way of making saints out of sinners.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End