Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something new, charge forward without a clear understanding of what would happen next, because given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?In the end, Thoreau, Whitman, Hafiz, and a dozen other writers put me up to the task of seeing if I dared to live a life worth living.

~ Dee Williams

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Learning that he was a professional swindler should have made her shame a hundred times worse. Instead, it took the sting out of it. The whole affair was disgusting, and she was unwise to have trusted him, but she had been one of many victims. She wouldn't stand out in his mind as more foolish than other women. What a strange, vain thing the mind was.

~ Rose Lerner

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