"I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again"

-- Megan Whalen Turner

#Fields Quotes #Failing Quotes #Slave Quotes

“I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it.”
“I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.”
“The Moon is such a planet I can't even stand it.”
“As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.”

Source : Dan John (2009). “Never Let Go”, p.266, On Target Publications
“At home the very walls lend you strength.”
“The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.”
“Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.”
“I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.”

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