Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
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Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.
Ray Bradbury
The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.
Jonathan Kozol
this was something you had to work through on you own, Hason said. Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing.
Oh, right, I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I reallly did. And if I hadn't?
Now Jason brandished sonething he'd been holding behind hes back. It was a golf club.
I figured Big Bertha here would drive theen away, he said
Meg Cabot