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Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.
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words
war
ann-rinaldi
inadequate
goodbye
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What it love, you ask. Dear child, love is like the light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime. You must experience the first in order to appreciate the second.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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Sometimes it take courage to leave.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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c546999
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Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to." She stared at me. "That's all?" To me it was not all, it was everything."
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Ann Rinaldi |
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I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I've learned that sometimes you just have to keep on going when you want to do nothing but drop. And that just doing the everyday things, like keeping a shop running or getting up every morning, will keep the work going until things can straighten out again. And doing those things right every day soon becomes more important than the more pressing..
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perseverance
doing-what-is-right
everyday-life
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When a woman's face is wrinkled And her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday! Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay; Remember, Lasses, remember. And while the sun shines make hay: You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.
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wisdom
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Ann Rinaldi |
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Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said."
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Ann Rinaldi |
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I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.
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He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and loved us since we were in our mother's womb
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faith
god
love
purpose
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Ann Rinaldi |
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I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are something the only reminder of God we have in the house.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.
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spirit
american-revolution
girls
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Ann Rinaldi |
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Because that's how intelligent people conduct themselves. They allow for each other's differences.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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There are different kinds of love, Sarah. I feel one kind of love for your father. A special kind. Another kind for Warren. And still a different kind for you children.' She smiled at me. 'Heaven rue the day we can't feel love for one another. I wouldn't want to live in such a world, would you?
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friendship
love
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Ann Rinaldi |
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9b9a597
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Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts.
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words
wolf-by-the-ears
unsaid-words
speak
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Ann Rinaldi |
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My heart stopped beating, I know it did. Hearts do that sometimes, for just a beat or two. Then they start up again. But they never regain those missed beats, and nothing is ever the same afterwards. Life proceeds to a different cadence, and never again as harmonious as before
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Ann Rinaldi |
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Her face was a map I'd like to trace. I'd love to see where it would take me. And I'd love to see where she had been.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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You know what I think, Sarah? I think that when God made all those animals, He was practicing. He made them all different shapes and sizes, and He just kept on practicing. For when He made man. But He had to practice a lot, first. That's why the animals are all so different-looking. What do you think?" 'Sometimes,' Sarah said, 'I think He didn't practice enough."
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Ann Rinaldi |
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I do not know what will be the end of it.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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0f7f432
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I think he is just an old man who still believes in his country, his old Germany. we all wanted a new Germany, but not at the cost of this madman, Hitler. Your grandpa can't be blamed for loving his old Germany.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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Haven't my past sermons taught you anything?" "Yes," Emilie threw at him, "that you pray for those who are close to God, and those who aren't, who Him, you toss away like garbage."
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prayer
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Ann Rinaldi |
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c194500
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I earn my own respect," I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else."
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Ann Rinaldi |
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So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more people try to make it sane? Or if it is full of sanity for them, why do they try to rip that sanity to pieces and impose their form of insanity? Can you help me understand?
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sanity
life
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Ann Rinaldi |
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8a1d229
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War takes a terrible toll on people, on families. And if war doesn't, then just ordinary life does. It changes them forever.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn't kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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You are a man without a heart, Dr. Leddell. And you, Mary Cooper, are a meddler. A woman can be forgiven for many transgressions but not that. I have been called worse. And by people I hold in more esteem than you. Ha! I pity the poor man unfortunate enough to marry you someday. He writes his own ticket to hell. If he does, then I'll make that hell as pleasant a place for him as I know how. But I won't deceive him and tell him it's heaven, ..
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Ann Rinaldi |
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The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.
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time
future
unafraid
wolf-by-the-ears
house
quiet
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Ann Rinaldi |
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You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what we need to hear. Forgive us. We must keep a few good enemies on hand, always, to keep us sharp and teach us never to do anything that needs forgiveness.
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friends
strength
forgiveness
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Ann Rinaldi |
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You're too young. I've met Miss Dix. She wants women who are matronly and not pretty. You fail on both requirements.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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There are forces in the world that we cannot see, and they are for good as well as for evil. And I sensed, with an inner certainty, that the forces of good were far more powerful than the forces of evil.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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I thanked him and said goodnight. I left him there and went into the house. Maria was playing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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Ann Rinaldi |
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He knows the most important language of all. Human compassion.
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language
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