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“- J’avais peur que tu ne reviennes jamais dans mes bras, lui souffla-t-il au creux de l’oreille. - C’est juste que je ne savais pas comment faire, répliqua Sapotille.”

Book:Justice soit faite !

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“I refuse to believe that Southern pride stems from the pain we’ve inflicted on others. Southern pride comes from what we’ve built together. In our music and art and innovation. In the people who honor us by taking our culture out into the world and celebrating it. It comes from people seeking us out, and flocking here to experience all that we know and love. We are all neighbors. We are all Southerners. This is OUR culture, and it means what WE choose it to mean. So, yes. I’ll say it again—Southern Pride is good collard greens. Death to the flag. Long live the South.”

Tradition Confederate Flag Southern Culture Southern Prejudice Southern Pride

Book:Southern Bastards #3

Source: Southern Bastards #3

“Collecting statistics at camp Zachary Taylor after the armistice [WW1 1918], I found that out of two hundred and fifty men from Kentucky and Tennessee, ninety were completely illiterate, several were actual imbeciles, two had syphilitic rheumatism; and any number had married at childhood ages, from twelve - the youngest - to seventeen. They had married girls from nine - the youngest - to fourteen. So I am ready to believe that the Faulkner and Caldwell depictions of ingrown sections of the country are based upon actual conditions....”

Southern Culture Faulkner Caldwell Imbecilese

Book:Being geniuses together, 1920-1930

Source: Being geniuses together, 1920-1930

“Ah, these old Southern families, how he envied them their heritage. It did not have to lead to this decay. And to think, he did not know the full names of his own great grandparents or where they had been born.”

Ghost Stories Southern Culture Family Heirlooms Family Trees Good Language

Book:The Witching Hour

Source: The Witching Hour

“Persons in dysfunctional families characteristically do not feel because they learned from a young age that not feeling is necessary for psychic survival. Family members generally learn it is too painful to feel the hurt or to experience the fear that comes from feelings of rage, abandonment, moments of terror, and memories of horror.”

Childhood Memories Childhood Trauma Dysfunctional Families Childhood Suffering Kathleen Heide

Author:Kathleen Heide

“He sometimes asked himself a question about life. Which are truer, the happy memories, or the unhappy ones? He decided, eventually, that the question was unanswerable.”

Life Truth Memories Memory Happy Memories Julian Barnes The Only Story Unanswerable Unhappy Memories

Book:The Only Story

Source: The Only Story

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