"It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include."

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Source : Marion Dane Bauer (2010). “The Very Little Princess: Zoey's Story”, p.64, Random House Books for Young Readers

Marion Dane Bauer

#Stories Quotes

“Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around the world, it's something that democracies tend to be quite skeptical about.”
“Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.”
“As a student, I don't have a lot of expenses. I buy food. I play a sport. But that's about it.”
“Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.”
“I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.”
“The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.”

Source : Thomas Bulfinch (1858). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur, "King Arthur and His Knights", "The Mabinogeon", "The Crusades", "Robin Hood", Etc”, p.14
“I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.”

Source : "The Power of Prayer". Book by Wright L. Lassiter, p. 14, 2005.

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