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1 " Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman. "
― Jennifer Donnelly , The Wild Rose (The Tea Rose, #3)
2 " Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you. "
3 " No sunrises that stop you dead with their unspeakable beuaty, either, he thought. No whales breaching only yards away from the ship, showering your awestruck self with a cold ocean rain. No songs and whiskey belowdecks at night while the wind plucks at the ship's rigging and the ice beats against her hull. "
4 " Only education can empty the workhouses and prisons, the slums and rookeries. "
5 " Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway. "
6 " She'd long ago learned that only those with something to lose were afraid of dying. "
7 " For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it. "
8 " From the moment he held her, and looked into her eyes, he was a changed man. He'd held that tiny girl in his arms that moment; he would hold her in his heart forever. "
9 " Sadness enfolded her like a long black cape. "
10 " Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. "