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I just began to teach with a few other mothers. To my surprise, I found more satisfaction in this modest pursuit than any other I’d taken on. War can be a blessing in this way. If you’re trapped, its destruction can free you. It freed me to
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
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“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Uglies
― Uglies

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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