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- After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came…
- Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every…
- Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
- But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.
- The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time,…
- But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good…
- I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from…
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