Dona

“Despite himself, Beauvoir laughed. "There is strong shadow where there is much light."

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But most he loved a happy human face.”
― Louise Penny, A Trick of the Light

“No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon

“Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“I suppose there are two worlds-the small, protected one we carve out for ourselves, where we fret about a whole lot of nothing, and the other world, the real one, which comes knocking at the door, demanding to be let in and given a seat.”
― Amy Hill Hearth, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society