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21 " take a great deal closer look at others, and then decide with whom you would, or could, change places, and what sacrifice of your nature you would be prepared to make in order to do so. "
― Anne Perry , The Face of a Stranger (William Monk, #1)
22 " But he was too proud and too ambitious to be a coward. He had grasped what he wanted without flinching. "
23 " She was a remarkable woman and her courage must be immense to have defied her family and traveled virtually alone "
24 " For a wild moment he thought of friendship, a closeness better than romance, cleaner and more honest; then it disappeared. "
25 " Before you pity yourself, take a great deal closer look at others, and then decide with whom you would, or could, change places, and what sacrifice of your nature you would be prepared to make in order to do so. Knowing you as I do, I think precious little. "
26 " But then to go out to the Crimea to nurse she must be a woman of courage beyond the ordinary imagination, and to remain there, of a strength of purpose that neither danger nor pain could bend. “I "
27 " rare courage, and a force of character "
28 " adventure or decision or freedom of any kind. "
29 " Some academic pursuit had been a suggestion; she found study absorbing, but the tutorial positions open to women were few, and the restrictions of the life did not appeal to her. She read for pleasure. "
30 " Only the quick-fingered, the strong and the lucky reached adulthood. Monk could not afford to indulge in judgment, "