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“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.”
― Three Weeks with My Brother
― Three Weeks with My Brother
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“Life bends us, shapes us, molds us, makes us, and breaks us." ~Lucian Bane~”
― 1st Semester
― 1st Semester
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“Mr. Severe's place was filled by a Mr. Hopkins. He was a very different man. He was less cruel, less profane, and made less noise, than Mr. Severe. His course was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty. He whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it. He was called by the slaves a good overseer.”
― A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
― A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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“Meeting a namesake is one of the most delicate and most brief surprises.”
― The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
― The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
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“She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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