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“Once again standing on past route.”
“Suffering is the common lot of man.”
“Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?”
“Have you ever met someone and felt like youve known them forever?”
“Have you ever met someone and felt like you’ve known them forever?”
“Youre everything to meyou always have been, and you always will be. Always and forever.”
“There is a big difference between having your heart broken and being the one responsible for a broken heart. I was twelve years old and had already experienced both.”
“You'd think the very thought of a romance writer would bring a smile to people's lips. Ah, how nice. Love. Making love. Laughter. Kissing. But no, the world is upside down as far as I can see, and ...”
“What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.”
“If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.”
“What southern whites further sought, and in a sense demanded, was respect. This the North provided after 1876 in paeans to the courage and dedication of soldiers on both sides. Resentment of northe...”
“In the United States the continued influence of the old elite meant that southern politics fell under the domination of a Democratic Party that gloried the Confederacy, the Lost Cause, the Ku Klux ...”
“War cannot eliminate differing ideas and viewpoints, and partisans of the defeated side do not disappear. Though subjugated, they become a sizable political constituency in the postwar period. A di...”
“There was no evidence I could do anything to change destiny, but I owed it to myself to try.”
“Last Friday in the music room, every word I said felt like I was taking a knife to my own skin, cutting so deep that I thought I would never know how to not feel pain again, he said, his voice rema...”
“It was like trying to recall a forgotten dreameach time I felt close to remembering where wed met, the memories slipped away.”
“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preo...”
“The past is the occupational realm of historianstheir daily workand scholars have debated what their stance toward these social issues should be. As citizens and professionals, historians may natur...”
“As hard as it is, grieving can be a gift, if we use it to examine our own lives and come closer to those we love.”
“Music is powerful; it transforms emotions and experiences into something tangible. Every time you hear a familiar song, the feelings from it bubble to the surface, bringing back memories you might ...”
“Our connection was like a hidden force pulling us towards one another, and resisting it took a strength that I didnt know I could keep up for much longer.”
“Feeling like I had to lose you for the second time... He shook his head, and I thought I saw tears under his eyes. I dont think I could bear it. Youre everything to me, Elizabeth.”
