

“It’s best to be ruthless with the past. It ain’t the blows we’re dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.”
― Rose Madder
― Rose Madder

“she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. And”
― The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
― The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.”
― The Prince of Frogtown
― The Prince of Frogtown

“This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.”
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“One: Don't kill yourself.
Two: Don't kill each other.
Three: Try hard not to kill nobody else, but if you have to, better if it ain't fam'ly.”
― All Over But the Shoutin'
Two: Don't kill each other.
Three: Try hard not to kill nobody else, but if you have to, better if it ain't fam'ly.”
― All Over But the Shoutin'
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