She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
--Betty Smith, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
--Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.
--Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
--Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags.
--Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
--Betty Smith, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
--Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.
--Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
--Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags.
--Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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