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Beth Given
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“Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I do when I gather in the ends of my thread to make a knot.”
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“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
― A Wrinkle in Time
― A Wrinkle in Time
“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
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Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
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