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“Many things that people do are unreasonable”

“An icon is not meant to be an idol. Just a reminder that love is greater than hate.”

“–you don’t get over someone’s death. Ever. You just learn to go on living the best way you possibly can.”

“Our books are like keepers of the memory. In them we have the stories of many people, many times, many cultures.”

“—we would, all of us, be less than we are if it weren’t for those we love and who’ve loved us who have died.”

“I guess the planet is riddled with holes, isn’t it? From all the people who’ve lived and then died. Do the holes ever get filled?”

“Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”

“I don’t underestimate knowledge. But we get into trouble when we confuse it with truth.”

“Certainly life had proven to her more than once that the world is not a reasonable place, but this was unreason beyond unreason.”

“Women have come a long way,” her grandmother said, “but there will always be problems–and glories–that are unique to women.”