"That's why I think it's important to revisit the story of Jonestown. I hope readers come away with a greater compassion for Jim Jones's victims, a third of whom were minors. To get a feeling for what it was like to be in their situation."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Julia Scheeres

#Thinking Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”

Source : Jennifer McMahon (2014). “The Winter People: A Novel”, p.22, Anchor
“Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.”
“Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.”
“There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.”
“Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.”

Source : Interview with Michael Connett, thenhf.com. October 4, 2005.
“Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life.”
“To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.”
“His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid heâ€™d tell me Ivy had it.”

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