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“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.”
― Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

“To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Judging Eye

“I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live....”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Villette

“... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers

“Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“He and her mother were of a quieter generation. They didn't believe in words as much as they believed in optimism and hard work.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Accept him. That was what family meant. Sometimes hurts didn't quite heal. That was life.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“One lesson I’ve learned countless times over the years is that whenever you let go of something negative in your life, you make room for something positive.”
― Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store