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“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

“Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.”
― Patrick Ness

“When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
― Maya Angelou

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
― George Carlin

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
― Vera Brittain

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901