We read to know we are not alone. ~ C. S. Lewis
To Know We Are Not Alone
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The Goose Girl By Shannon Hale
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Right now I’d like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I’d give each a black eye.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
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You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
As Necessary As Bread
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. ~ Mary Oliver
Read Interesting Minds
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By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Banner In The Sky By James Ramsey Ullman
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It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
Stories Are Incredibly Important
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Stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. ~ Neil Gaiman
If A Book Is Well Written
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If a book is well written I always find it too short. ~ Jane Austen
No Legacy So Rich As Honesty
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No legacy is so rich as honesty. ~ William Shakespeare