"She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds."

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Source : Susan Wiggs (2016). “Susan Wiggs The Calhoun Chronicles Books 1-3: The Charm School\The Horsemaster's Daughter\Halfway to Heaven”, p.70, MIRA

Susan Wiggs

#Departed Quotes #Sailing Quotes #Dying Quotes

“If we are to overcome terrorism and violence, we need education. That is the only way we can win.”

Source : "Half the Sky". Book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2008.
“My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.”
“Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.”
“Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”
“Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.”
“Fear is a huge thing for older people.”
“I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.”
“The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.”

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