"Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you."

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Maya Banks

#Missing Quotes

“The Very Hungry Caterpillarâ€ story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future”
“Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.”
“They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.”
“Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.”

Source : "Five questions for Nikki Grimes". Interview With Horn Book, www.hbook.com. February 6, 2017.
“For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy”
“Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a 5 K race. It's not just a folk song, or a white dove. And peace is certainly more than a celebrity endorsement. Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. The UN has over 100,000 Peacekeepers on the ground, in places others can't or won't go, doing things others can't or won't do. Peace, like war, must be waged.”
“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”
“At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.”

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