Susan Campbell Bartoletti · 202 pages
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“The worst experience can bring out a person's deepest strength.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, quote from The Boy Who Dared
“You cannot repay evil with evil.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, quote from The Boy Who Dared
“There are many reasons for a person to lie, but to have a reason to tell the truth, you much have a deep belief, and great courage.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, quote from The Boy Who Dared
“God loves us all. He does not love us more than he loves our enemies.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, quote from The Boy Who Dared
“Geist und Tat. Spirit and Action.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, quote from The Boy Who Dared
“This is a war against lies. If we want to win, we can't attack in straight lines.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, quote from The Boy Who Dared
“There are many reasons for a person to lie, but to have a reason to tell the truth, you must have deep belief. And great courage.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, quote from The Boy Who Dared
“What if more of life could be like that? Like the last slow dance, where, to echo T.S. Eliot, a lifetime burns in every moment.”
― Alice Steinbach, quote from Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
“On some days nothing seemed to go right, and then it would be: “All right, then, I know what you want. You’ve been asking for it the whole morning. Come along, you useless little slacker. Come into the study.” And then whack, whack, whack, whack, and back one would come, red-wealed and smarting—in later years Sim had abandoned his riding crop in favour of a thin rattan cane which hurt very much more—to settle down to work again. This did not happen very often, but I do remember, more than once being led out of the room in the middle of a Latin sentence, receiving a beating and then going straight ahead with the same sentence, just like that.”
― George Orwell, quote from A Collection of Essays
“We are all creatures of the stars.”
― Doris Lessing, quote from Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
“You people, Bosch thought. It was always said like that, as if the police were another species. The blue species which carried armor that the horrors of the world could not pierce. “When”
― Michael Connelly, quote from City of Bones
“He remains kind, but a feeling nags at me, staying with me long after I leave. And it's this: It doesn't matter what I did to him. He can choose to remain detached, untouched by me. Something I can't do back.”
― Kerry Cohen, quote from Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
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