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1 " Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth. "
― Martina Boone , Illusion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #3)
2 " You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you. "
3 " Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free. "
4 " In so many ways, for so many people, freedom was still an illusion. Barrie thought of the statistics she had read about how many women and children were still enslaved all over the world. Now— not three hundred years ago— and she wondered how it was possible that so little could change. Sometimes it seemed like the world was sliding backward and no one was noticing. "
5 " The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing, "
6 " Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you. "
7 " You didn’t find strength when you couldn’t live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you thought was possible. "
8 " You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake. "
9 " Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery. "
10 " Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how. "
11 " Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming. "
12 " Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all? "
13 " When you loved someone, you couldn’t hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe. "
14 " A smile and a sword— the way to conquer kingdoms. "
15 " Murder is always wrong, doesn’t matter who does the killin’. Hurtin’ someone else is always wrong. Everyone’s got their burdens. The way the world is, we need faith and hope and joyful praise more than ever to get through. "
16 " Knowing something in your head and knowing it deep down where fear lives are two different things. "
17 " As long as you loved somebody, each kiss was hope and wonder, but it was also the potential for good-bye. "
18 " Bravery isn’t born. It’s forged in the nightmare places where fear tears the mind apart. "
19 " buttermilk fried chicken and corn bread dressing, shipwreck casserole, and twice-baked beans. For dessert, there was hummingbird cake and banana pudding, and a whoopie pie cake "
20 " Sorry’ isn’t a synonym for ‘guilty.’ It's a way to say you're listening. "
