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“What molds us is what maims us.”

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Dennis Lehane, born on August 4, 1965, is a renowned American author known for his crime and suspense novels. His works, often set in Boston, delve into the dark side of human nature and the complexities of society. more

“I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”

Want Feels Stills Happens Earth Success Dies Felt Sleep Sun Happened Air Goodness Lays Fingers Rate Warm Pumpkin

Author:Willa Cather

“Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.”

Stills Country Girl Grows Forget Boys Growing Up Growing Summer Towns Elders Boy And Girl

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.”

Knows Years Looks Real Grows Papa

Book:My Ántonia

Source: My Ántonia

“In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.”

Way Littles Real Feelings Hurt Cases Nice Special Wounds Collections Exceptional

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”

People Ifs Stories Life Is Expected

Book:The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy

Source: The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy

“For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.”

Years Heart Doe Hard Done Sound Hours Space Tears Prison Tragic

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.”

Inspirational Needs Feels Humans Able Spirit Human Beings Relate

Author:Dalai Lama

“If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”

Ifs Work Results Effort Silence Known If I Could Obscurity

Author:Emily Bronte

“As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.”

Knows Want Mind Wells Matter Certain My Own Answers

Author:Alessandro Baricco

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