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“When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”
― Judy Blume

“If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them."

[Bangor Daily News, Guest Column of March 20, 1992]”
― Stephen King

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

“She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation.”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
― Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Face front, true believers!”
― Stan Lee

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Hmong tradition dictated that only a son could find the guides who would lead the spirits of his mother or father to the land of the ancestors.”
― Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

“He was young, and it didn’t matter that he already had a wife and two girls—the lonely women in the camp were still willing to become his second wife. Only”
― Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

“My parents knew that I was not speaking much at school, but they both knew that I was learning English. They had seen me write letters to Grandma in California. They had noticed when I laughed at the funny parts of Tom & Jerry. But the thing that gave me away most was my anger. Whenever I got angry, I spoke in English, unless I was angry at them, in which case I would want them to know everything I was saying, so I would try my best at being angry in Hmong: “Dawb is a lazy bum, and you never ask her to do anything. You always ask me because I do it. I make it too easy for you! You are being unfair! You are parents, and you are not doing your job well!” I”
― Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

“My parents tried their best at English, but their best was not catching up with Dawb’s and mine. We were picking up the language faster, and so we became the interpreters and translators for our family dealings with American people. In the beginning, we just did it because it was easier and because we did not want to see them struggle over easy things. They were working hard for the more important things in our lives. Later, we realized so many other cousins and friends were doing the same. I”
― Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

“The adults continued having nightmares. They cried out in their sleep. In the mornings, they sat at the table and talked to us about their bad dreams: the war was around them, the land was falling to pieces, Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese soldiers were coming, the sound of guns raced with the beating of their hearts. In their dreams, they met people who were no longer alive but who had loved them back in their old lives. There were stomach ulcers from worrying and heads that throbbed late into the night. My aunts and uncles in California farmed on a small acreage, five or ten, to add to the money they received from welfare. My aunts and uncles in Minnesota, in the summers, did “under the table” work to help make ends meet if they could, like harvesting corn or picking baby cucumbers to make pickles. And the adults kept saying: how lucky we are to be in America. I wasn’t convinced.”
― Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

“The world in which Alex is a leading voice — a loose collection of internet conspiracy theorists and nationalists and some racists — suddenly had a name: the “alt-right movement.”
― Jon Ronson, The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right”

“There is only one penalty for high treason: for a man, to be hanged, cut down alive and eviscerated, or for a woman, to be burned. The king may vary the sentence to decapitation; only poisoners are boiled alive.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“In truth you cannot separate them, your public being and your private self.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“His name was Roger Stone. And he was the man who first introduced Alex Jones to his close friend Donald Trump. *”
― Jon Ronson, The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right”