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She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is lucky, she thinks, that we don't feel all the love inside us every moment. — Gabrielle Zevin

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do. — Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes horrible choices can lead to the right decision, its not where we start that's important but where we end. — Ava Harrison

So how long do you think it'll be?" he says. "Before the next hurricane comes along to take you home."
"Can I tell you my biggest fear?" I say.
"Yes. Tell me."
"That it will be a very windless four years. — Lauren DeStefano

Every time I come off-set, I am just like a normal kid again. — Rupert Grint

Lilliputians think nothing can be more unjust, than for people, in subservience to their own appetites, to bring children into the world, and leave the burthen of supporting them on the public. As — Jonathan Swift

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do. — Richard L. Evans

No Amish woman would dare to confide, even in her sister, that a man's very presence made her heart quicken and her senses tingle. — Sarah Price

Seek to know thy sacred soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita