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1 " Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit. ~Laura Hecox "
― Candace Fleming , Women of the Lights
2 " We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die. "
― Candace Fleming , On the Day I Died: Stories from the Grave
3 " But we glared into each other's eyes like men who have ruined each other already, and who only wait to make the full disaster known "
― Candace Fleming , Fatal Throne
4 " I am my head and my heart, all that I know, all that I love, everything I hope for. I am the blue waters of the Rhine, sparkling in the sun. "
5 " Oh, how I prefer the honest violence of men, who will bash in another man's skull and be done, to the thousand shallow cuts of women's malice. "
6 " Neta crawled out of the wreckage, hoping against hope that Amelia wasn’t hurt.She wasn’t. She was standing next to the plane, grinning and powdering her nose. “We have to look nice [if] reporters arrive,” she said. "
― Candace Fleming , Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
7 " Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die. "
8 " I dreamed that I was loved. I woke and found it true. "
― Candace Fleming , The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
9 " Books taught me how to think. "
10 " ...One thing I have noticed, child, is that tyrants are the grandest romantics. They can burn a heretic alive once day, and compose a love sonnet the next. "
11 " We wanted - no, we needed - to tell our stories, and more importantly, we needed our stories to be heard. "
12 " We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive. "
13 " You are filled with anguishFor the suffering of others.And no one's griefHas ever passed you by.You are relentlessOnly to yourself,Forever cold and pitiless.But if only you could look uponYour own sadness from a distance,Just once with a loving soul—Oh, how you would pity yourself.How sadly you would weep.—Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, poem dedicated to her mother, April 23, 1917 "
14 " Words hold such weight and consequence. I have not always been mindful of my tongue, and it has cost me. For if given the choice, people will believe the worst of you, not the best. "
15 " Ah, the Dewey decimal system…humankind’s single greatest achievement.” From Candace Fleming’s The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School "
― Candace Fleming
16 " I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows if one of these days I shall be prevented from doing it.—Alexei Romanov "
17 " fond,” one catty countess recalled, “with diamonds scattered "
18 " The enemy perhaps may challenge my sex for that I am a woman - so may I likewise challenge them, for they are but men. "
19 " Darling boysy...me loves you, oh so very tenderly...you must always tell me everything, you can fully trust me, look upon me as a bit of yourself...How I love you, darling treasure, my very own one.—Alix, to Nicholas II "
20 " Imagine what joy it would bring to see his beauty and brilliance shine out more clearly each day. After all, the important thing is the diamond itself, clear and flawless under its film.—Mary Lincoln "
― Candace Fleming , The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
