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“It was a very particular loneliness: knowing that people around you were also sad but that you couldn’t be sad together.”

“A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself.
It sounds like motherhood to me.”

“Once, Elsa would have said, God will provide, and she would have believed it, but her faith had hit the same hard times that had struck the country. Now, the only help women had was each other. ‘I’ll be here for you,’ Elsa said, then added, ‘Maybe that’s how God provides. He put me in your path and you in mine.’”

“Who the hell thinks it’s a good idea to tell a whole country who just got done fighting their ass off in another land that you can’t sit down and have a damn drink? Politicians, that’s who. Don’t think they ain’t about it get rich. Along with a whole bunch of other people who got no business being that way.”

“and that there would always be an enemy and it only took an instant for the enemy to become someone you didn’t expect.”

“she lacked the courage to admit to the night sky that it still had much to teach her.”

“And as far as the promises we all make to God, if every person who had ever made a promise to Him went through with their end of the deal there’d scarcely be a lost soul in this world. He knows we won’t keep them but He’s got to listen.”

“and he said to the attic the world repeats itself. He said it with certainty as if it was something he had always known but just now found the courage to admit. I have been here before and I will be here again.”

“Mine binds; Thine liberates. If you drop ‘mines’ all over, they will ‘undermine’ your life - or blow up in your face. But if you change the ‘mines’ to Thines, you will always be safe.”

“It’s crazy what your mind can do to you. I always thought it was supposed to be your friend but it’ll give you up quick as anything. Especially when you can’t see.”

“He walked slowly and listened and waited for her to be the one to reach out and to somehow know all it was he wanted to say. He walked slowly and listened and waited for her voice to cut through the gray day but it did not come and then he was too far away from her to turn back.”

“History doesn’t record the intricacies of women’s relationships with one another; they’re not to be uncovered.”

“If there was anything that the last few days had taught me, it was the importance of shining new light on old truths hidden in dark places.”

“Two decades after my mothers death, I found myself reassuring a child exactly as my mother had reassured me. But to what end? Why did we go to such lengths to protect the fragile minds of children? We only robbed them of the truth - and the chance to grow numb to it before it arrived with a hard knock on the door.”

“Did everything reinvent itself over time? It was beginning to seem like every person, every place, carried an untold story with long buried truths resting just beneath the surface “

“Where on the list was our fulfillment, our joy? Was it selfish to put our own happiness before the needs of another human being, one who didn’t even exist yet?”

“Heartache is shared by all, and favors no rank.”

“Instead, I asked myself what the old Caroline would do - the Caroline of a decade ago, the zealous student not yet dazzled by a diamond ring on her finger.”

“Maybe I would have my head stuck in fairytales, as James liked to joke, but wouldn’t that still be better than the nightmare in which I now found myself?”

“But I believe now he was searching in the wrong place. There was something very special but it wasn’t inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.”

“You may not mind being poor, Helen. But you’ve become fragile. And I think you mind that a whole lot more.”

“Could it be ‘that this life of a Physician is so utterly not my life that I can not express myself through it - and worse - worse - that I might have done more in other ways?’”

“‘I am convinced that a new & nobler era is dawning, for Medicine,’ Elizabeth wrote, ‘when the low system of course & violent drugging shall give place to a more spiritual practice, better adapted to our delicate & wonderful living organism.’”

“so there seems to me no opening in the circle.”

“Because we know when we lift others up, regardless of their skin color, your arms get stronger.”

“God cannot be understood by the mind, because mind is matter, and matter cannot possibly understand something more subtle than matter.”

“If we are going to go into the secrets of life and the universe and gain control over them, we should have pure minds to make the proper use of them. Otherwise, we will bring destruction on the entire humanity.”

“‘This right here,’ he said, touching a dusty finger to my temple, ‘is soil. Jus’ like this garden. And only you can decide what grows and who you allow to get their hands in it. Understand.’”

“An opportunity means change. An opportunity means action. But most of all, an opportunity means the chance of failure. And it’s the potential of failure, more than failure itself, that’s stops so many people from beginning anything.”