"There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup."

-- Kate DiCamillo

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“Surrender goes against our very nature to be independent. Surrender indicates we willingly choose to rely on others. We must rewire our thinking to recognize that needing another person (and being the person someone else needs) is not a weakness; it only strengthens us.”
“I was a smart kid, but I hated school.”
“We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.”
“I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.”
“I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.”
“ã€€When the leaders speak of peace ã€€The common folk know ã€€That war is coming ã€€When the leaders curse war ã€€The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread ã€€I go to the market where lies are bought ã€€Hopefully ã€€I take up my place among the sellers. ã€€”
“Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."”

Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.329, Booklassic
“Morality is contraband in war.”

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