Freedom Quote by Jenny Valentine

“Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.” quote by Jenny Valentine — Download Open image

“Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.”

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What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting or enjoying things. It doesn't matter what you're talking about - war, work, marriage, democracy, love, it all fails because everybody gives up trying after a while, we can't help ourselves. And don't ask me…

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It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

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“According to Grandad, being a vegetarian wasn't about just health or cruelty of money or flavor: it was about manners. He said that stealing…

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“What are you afraid of," she said. "Daylight?" No. I'm afraid of you. I'm afraid of myself, of whatever it is I'm going to…

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Everything is going to be fine.” I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what’s coming next. They…

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It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

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I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world…

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“I cut off a piece of meatball dripping with sauce. I tried to make my face right. I tried to smile and not grimace,…

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I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor…

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I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d…

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There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it.

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I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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