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  1. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of the Island

    If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne," said Gilbert in the tone that meant "danger ahead." "Then you would be very unwise," rejoined Anne hastily. "I'm sure no life can be properly developed and rounded out without some trial and sorrow--though I suppose it is only when we are pretty comfortable that we admit it...
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  2. Betty Smith _ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.
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  3. Francesca Lia Block _ Ruby

    Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.
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  4. Juliet Marillier _ Daughter of the Forest

    And they say, if ever a traveler plucks the wild parsley, and takes the bark of the hazel tree, and the secret toadstools, and mixes them with crocus from the patch of forest where the hero's last bones lie, a powerful spell will come to life. The hero will be reborn, not as he was before his destruction, but many times stronger in body and spirit; for he will be filled with the strength of earth, sea, and air. I think of the seven of us as the parts of one body. We may be torn asunder, and it may seem as if there is no tomorrow for us. We may each travel our own path, and we may fall and be broken and mend again. But in the end, as surely as the sun and moon make their way across the arch of the heavens, the strength of one is the strength of seven.
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  5. Mark Haddon _ The Red House

    It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.
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  6. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides
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  7. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
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