“I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary,' she said, sticking her chin in the air.”
“It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.”
“Miss Thorne said no more. Poor boy, she thought, away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man. Tom”
“I expect you think I’m a bit forward,’ remarked Zach. ‘Wot?”
“This love, it is a funny thing. It can elevate you to the highest peak and plunge you to a bottomless pit. I”
“You have done an unwise thing, Martise of Asher,” he said softly. “You’ve caught my interest.”
“I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.”
“For he is not poor who has little; only he that desires much … and true security lies not in the things one has but in the things one can do without.”
“We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the conquering of fear produces exhilaration.…The contrast between the previous apprehension and the present relief and feeling of security promotes a self-confidence that is the very father and mother of courage.”
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