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1 " she leaped down the porch steps to her car. There was no thought. No planning. Just action. When you get a call that your kid is in the ER, there can be no room for thinking. Just the deepest fear imaginable, the kind that gripped like a steel band around her chest. "
― Susan Wiggs , Map of the Heart
2 " There were few forces greater than the power of a fourteen-year-old’s determination when she wanted something. A teenager would stop at nothing in order to get her way. "
3 " On his very worst day, each one of these men managed to summon his very best. Each one embodied the essence of courage. It is not the state of being unafraid, but the rare ability to confront fear. "
4 " Thank you for all the Acts of Light which beautified a summer now passed to its reward. —letter from Emily Dickinson to Mrs. John Howard Sweetser "
5 " What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic "
6 " Life as it reveals itself is filled with riches. What will happen, will happen. Worrying will not affect the outcome. "
7 " You’re good at so many things,” Camille said. “I’m a fat loser,” Julie stated. “And don’t say I’m not fat because I am.” Camille felt ill. She’d been blind to what Julie wanted. Was she a terrible mother for being overprotective? Was she letting her own fears smother her daughter? By withholding her permission to take surf rescue, she’d forced Julie to go behind her back. "
8 " I’m fat, okay? Getting rid of my braces and glasses is not going to change that.” “Stop it,” Camille said. God, why were teenagers so hard? Had she been that hard? “I won’t let you talk about yourself that way. "
9 " As a volunteer for the Military History Center, he visited Arlington whenever he was in town, recovering items that had been left on headstones. With his fellow volunteers, he helped catalog the items for a database so each remembrance, no matter how small, would be preserved. "
10 " a group of villagers in the highlands of Vietnam, he’d discovered the crash site of four U.S. soldiers who had gone missing fifty years before. "
11 " More than a thousand veterans still remained unaccounted for, and his father, Richard Arthur Finnemore, was one of them. "
12 " The moments of life are ephemeral and unpredictable. We must capture the best ones and keep them safe in our hearts. "
