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“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.”

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American writer, philosopher, and educator, born on November 29, 1799, and died on March 4, 1888. Amos Bronson Alcott is known for his contributions to educational reform and the development of individual freedom. more

“I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.”

Thinking World Heart Made Enough Care Choices Asks Honest Car Like You My Heart Victim Caring Being Honest Not Sure Trust Me Not Caring Limping

Book:Return to Paradise

Source: Return to Paradise

“But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.”

Guy Turns Silence Quiet Stranger Far Away Ashes Loner Slopes Dormant Cabins Dakota Old Guys North Dakota Log Cabins

Author:Sarah Vowell

“Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.”

Children Voice Bed Dear Bitter Melancholy Dread Bedtime Maidens Unwelcome Tidings

Book:The Complete Alice in Wonderland

Source: The Complete Alice in Wonderland

“I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.”

World Life Eye Universe Water Differences Gone Rain Flow Stones Empty Ears Boundaries Bowls Cactus Stargirl

Book:Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.”

Way Book Moments Character Normal Extremes Discontent

Book:The Days of Abandonment

Source: The Days of Abandonment

“Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.”

World Ends Remember Teeth Tails

Book:Agent of Change

Source: Agent of Change

“What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.”

Children Doe Asks Parent Streets Creatures Adults Sells Diamond Coins

Book:Feast of Souls: Book One of the Magister Trilogy

Source: Feast of Souls: Book One of the Magister Trilogy

“Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.”

Eye Pain Flicker Bloodshot Eyes

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!”

Want Country Whole Rebellion

Book:The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Source: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

“I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives”

People Ifs World Secret Mystery Encounters Recognise Exotic Exotic Places

Author:David Malouf

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