"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.”
“Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.”
“Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.”
“Itâ€™s not what you do â€“ itâ€™s what you are becoming.”
“But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.”
“Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.”
“The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of the dark. Like any experience in life, you wonder, Well, if this ever happens, how would I react? and then it happens, and only then do you know.”

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“You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.”

Source : Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.239, Scholastic Inc.

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