"There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts."

-- Louis L'Amour

#War Quotes #Character Quotes #Hard Times Quotes

“Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.27, Vintage
“The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.”
“Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.”

Source : "The World Doesn't Need Another Rhyming Tooth Fairy Story: A Conversation with Children's Book Agent Andrea Brown". Interview with Anna Olswanger, www.underdown.org. 1998.
“What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.”
“I think the most tortured place in hell should be reserved not for traitors, but... for cowards. The weakest, most spineless losers. Because it seems to me that traitors? At least they made a choice. But cowards? They just run around biting their fingernails, totally afraid to do anything. Which is totally worse.”

Source : Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.160, Delacorte Press
“I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.”
“Nothing I have accomplished has given me more confidence than birthing my children at home naturally. I was so high after delivering my children-not just because I had a new baby, but because I was so proud of what my body (and mind) were able to do. I strongly encourage women not to give this power away.”
“Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.”

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