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Like outcasts everywhere, I courted danger because danger was one of the few things strong enough to help me forget what I’d lost.
I know now that there are beginnings, turning points, many of them, in every life; questions of luck and will and fate.
must roar, just to remind the horse of his fear.
justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving.
It’s a characteristic of human nature that the best qualities, called up quickly in a crisis, are very often the hardest to find in a prosperous calm.
rehydration solution that he developed contained distilled water, sugar, common salt, and other minerals in carefully mixed proportions.
There’s no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.
One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow.
When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn’t be of our making, but that wouldn’t occur without our action.
I knew it wasn’t true, but love seldom concerns itself with what we know or with what’s true. To make sure none followed where you led