"Time, Kate was learning, was like a river. You might put up obstacles, even divert it briefly, but the river had a will of it's own. It wanted to flow a certain way. You had to force it to change. You had to be willing to sacrifice."

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Source : John Stephens (2011). “The Emerald Atlas”, p.332, Knopf Books for Young Readers

John Stephens

#Sacrifice Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Might Quotes

“Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.”
“Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.”
“Sometimes people say that kids with autism aren't capable of love. That's ridiculous. My son loves deeply. He's just doesn't communicate well.”
“She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.”
“Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.”
“I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.”
“An attitude will give you heft.”
“The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.”

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