"It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated."

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Source : Cynthia Lord (2012). “Touch Blue”, p.87, Scholastic Inc.

Cynthia Lord

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“O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.”
“If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.”
“Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South Carolina has probably decided favourably before this time. The plot thickens fast. A few short weeks will determine the political fate of America for the present generation, and probably produce no small influence on the happiness of society through a long succession of ages to come.”
“My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.”
“Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?”
“Land surveyors start as employees, and move up to partnership in a firm or to ownership of their own enterprise if they wish. Some wind up working for government, private corporations, or public enterprise.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.”
“The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage”

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