““Courage was no that hard to come by for children. No matter the hardships they faced, given a little love and encouragement, their spirits rebounded and thrived. Adults were different. Their habits and experiences made them inflexible, welding their routines into place, cementing their joys and hurts to create expectations of life that were not in line with the new realities. All around her, Cass saw the dazed expressions and the blank weariness.””
![“Now he [Rattler] was staring at Prairie with an intensity you could light fires with. And she stared back. There was something between them, all right, something cracking with tension and danger, something almost ... alive.” quote by Sophie Littlefield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/db2/sophie-littlefield-37661_quote_now-he-rattler-was-staring-at-prairie-wi_2706411.jpg)
![“My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.” quote by Anwar Sadat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/543/anwar-sadat-18573_adaptability_my-contemplation-of-life-and-human-natur_36590.jpg)
