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And I could test myself - my own courage - with it, too, because when the doors at either end of the secret staircase were closed, it was impenetrably dark. I hid in the staircase, shivering with terror, telling the narrative: The little girl was in a dark, dark place but she was very brave ... Sometimes the door at the bottom opened, and a wedge of light sliced up the stairs; a maid, her arms filled with folded laundry, would find me and ask in amazement what I was doing there.
And though I answered lightheartedly that I was playing, the truth is that I was not entirely certain what I was doing there, crouched and frightened in the darkness. Only now, sixty years later, do I see that I was arming myself, rehearsing panic, loss, and helplessness; assessing my own cowardice and courage, and and the same time reassuring myself that the door would always open, that the light would always find its way in. — Lois Lowry

I add a smile to everything I wear and that has worked great for me. — David White

Plot is certainly a part of constructing a story. It's a factor in outlining. But believe it or not, it's the least important factor. If you focus your efforts on the Three Legs - character arc, pacing, and theme - you can change the specifics of the plot a hundred different times, and you'll still have essentially the same story. — Libbie Hawker

Thou mayest rule over sin. — John Steinbeck

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely - "il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien" - I wager he finds nothing! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew. — Golda Meir

The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design. — John McAslan

A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of millions of light-years from end to end. — Douglas Adams

Incidentally, I don't know how late you were planning to stay, but there is an excellent film this evening The Snake Pit. It's a wonderful comedy. I've seen it several times. — Daniel Pinkwater

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own. — Maya Soetoro-Ng

I've had this dream too many times. I don't want it taken away again. — Marie Lu

But in 1922 it was still a new thing to be a machine. — Jeffrey Eugenides

You see that it is not at all like Rodin ... I share these only with you, don't show them. — Camille Claudel

How terrible to be a god of change and endure grief unending. — N.K. Jemisin