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“Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.”
― Abigail Green, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero

“Remember that stories are more than just words, more than fairy tales. They are magic.”
― Valya Dudycz Lupescu, The Silence of Trees

“There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

“For those who write memoirs, memory is not a mere recollection of facts; it is a ragbag we pick through, salvaging scraps to craft into literature. We take half-remembered events and stitch them together to form a larger story that will, we hope, resonate with others and help them make sense of their own”—Erika Schikel”
― Rossandra White

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once again inhabit the skin of who we were and what we have learned. Writing memoir is an act of testimony, witnessing, healing. When you write a memoir, you draw upon layers of your consciousness and discover your true nature, your essential self, and are transformed the process.” Linda Joy Meyer”
― Rossandra White

“I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.”
― George MacDonald

“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”
― Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer, Between the Lines

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

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

“The word amen, which found its way from Judaism into Christianity and Islam, crossing cultures and continents, borders and chasms, is in fact an acronym of the Hebrew phrase ‘el melech ne’eman.’ Spoken in response to a blessing, it means: the words of the blessing are true and may they come to pass…Since that word is so universal, it symbolizes for me, much as literature does, everything that we, all of humanity, have in common despite the differences in our way of thinking, in our faith, and our inner and outer landscapes, the living, quivering hope of every human being for forgiveness, salvation, mercy. And so I think that even the very fact of its existence is comforting, although all our wishes may not come true.”
― Zeruya Shalev

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
― Golda Meir