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And take it altogether, now that we have been into most of the houses hereabouts and can judge, there is not one that we like better than this.

“After the ballet, Grace played the part of Juliet, dancing around her room in her imaginary tutu. I can be anything I want, she thought.”

″‘I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider’s web. I saved the victim’s life.’ ‘The firefly’s?’ said the minstrel. ‘The spider’s. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.‘”

“Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”

Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why.

“The words ‘bad timing’ came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.”

“I’m not a good lier. Except Brewster. It takes a lot of lies to keep a marriage going.”

“I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.”

“The growth of civilization was complete. Everyone knew it. When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn.”

“But here, in our tunnel, we feel it no longer. The air is pure under the ground. There is no odor of men. And these three hours give us strength for our hours above the ground.”