"On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal parts-and we wanted it all."

-- Paula McLain

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“If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.”
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.' And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.”
“OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.”
“When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.”
“You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.”
“I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.”
“The world fascinates me.”
“Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.”

Source : St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Edith Stein, Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity (2013). “The Way of the Cross with the Carmelite Saints”, p.1, ICS Publications

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