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My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

— Alice Hoffman Practical Magic (1995)

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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Here on Earth (1997)

Artists have themes that they go back to—that they are haunted by and obsessed with.

Interview with Goodreads (2009)

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

The Foretelling (2005)

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

The Dovekeepers (2011)

Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

The Dovekeepers (2011)

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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