The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos. (p.67)


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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction w...
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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through...
LEIGH HUNT
They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on...
LEIGH BARDUGO
You're very welcome," she said, giving my hair a hard tug. "You should be used to being gawked at by...
LEIGH BARDUGO
The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.
LEIGH BARDUGO
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
LEIGH HUNT
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
LEIGH HUNT
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
LEIGH HUNT
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
LEIGH HUNT
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
LEIGH HUNT
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
LEIGH HUNT
Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; t...
LEIGH HUNT
Colors are the smiles of nature.
LEIGH HUNT
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking throug...
LEIGH HUNT
Better terrible truths than kind lies.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat...
LEIGH BARDUGO
He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. Th...
LEIGH BARDUGO
I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that...
LEIGH BARDUGO
We are all someone's monster.
LEIGH BARDUGO
When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.
LEIGH BARDUGO
It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is ta...
LEIGH BARDUGO
No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower,...
LEIGH BARDUGO
Stolen kisses are always sweetest
LEIGH HUNT
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it i...
LEIGH HUNT
I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.
JULIA LEIGH
I am going to be a great actress.
VIVIEN LEIGH
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
LEIGH HUNT
I've always been mad about cats.
VIVIEN LEIGH
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
VIVIEN LEIGH
I'm very good with sunglasses. There are things like... maybe headphones - either they're st...
LEIGH LEZARK
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
LEIGH HUNT
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or ...
LEIGH STEINBERG
Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you ha...
LEIGH STEINBERG