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Author: Ann Rinaldi
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  1. Ann Rinaldi _ In My Father's House

    He knows the most important language of all. Human compassion.
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  2. Ann Rinaldi _ In My Father's House

    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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  3. Ann Rinaldi _ A Break with Charity: A Story

    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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  4. Ann Rinaldi _ Girl in Blue

    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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  5. Ann Rinaldi _ An Acquaintance with Darkness

    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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  6. Ann Rinaldi _ An Acquaintance with Darkness

    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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  7. Ann Rinaldi _ Wolf by the Ears

    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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  8. Ann Rinaldi _ A Ride into Morning: The Story

    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, then stoke the fires behind his back and cover it all with the scent of lilacs".
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  9. Ann Rinaldi _ In My Father's House

    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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  10. Ann Rinaldi _ Cast Two Shadows: The American

    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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  11. Ann Rinaldi _ The Letter Writer

    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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  12. Ann Rinaldi _ The Letter Writer

    I earn my own respect," I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.
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