"Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood."

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Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.23, e-artnow

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#Heart Quotes #Blood Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.”

Source : "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.
“Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.”
“I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.”
“Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.”
“What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.”
“What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort â€” taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles â€” to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.”
“If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.”
“Somehow, while I wasn't looking, I fell. And I fell hard.”

Source : M. Leighton (2013). “Up to Me”, p.121, Penguin

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