When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China. - Jean Fritz

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Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

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Happy Friday! Happiness begins with a loving heart! Open your heart and share time with those who warm your heart and make you smile! _ Tracey Edmonds

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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

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Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart.

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God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

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At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. ― Rumi

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The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck.

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