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“We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.”
― Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall

“follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it.”
― Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall

“I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so that you would never be trapped by anything-your name, your title, the limits of your body, this world's suffering”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

“... love is our one eternity. It reflects itself in joy and grief, in my father's sudden knowledge that he would not live to protect me, and in his determination to leave behind a part of himself - his spirit, his humanity - to illuminate my path, give light to my darkened world.”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

“Lilies come from lilies, thistles from thistles.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles

“As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.”
― Magenta Periwinkle

“The night has a thousand eyes, and two of them are mine.”
― Sean Taylor

“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