"The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life."

-- Eileen Simpson

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“Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.”

Source : Nancy Pearl (2009). “Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason”, p.11, Sasquatch Books
“Uphill, downhill, I like that.”
“We are firm believers of the paranormal, but we believe over 80 percent of all claims can be disproved.”
“I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.”
“What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.”
“A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.”

Source : Mark McMorris (2003). “The Blaze of the Poui: Poems”, p.69, University of Georgia Press
“Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water," the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.”
“Weird is good, strange is bad.”

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