35 Quotes by L.A. Meyer

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    I know you don’t approve of me or my ways, Ezra, but I got to make my way in this world the best I can. I got to work with what talents I got ’cause ain’t nobody gonna look out for me but me. I will play my music, I will sing my songs, I will dance my dances. And sometimes, as I have found in my life, it’s easier being a boy. That’s the way of it. Till later, Ezra.” I.

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    And so you also see how no skill, no matter how lowly, is ever learned in vain.

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    It is said that boys fall in love with their eyes, because they can be initially struck to their very core by a girl’s mere physical beauty, while girls tend to fall in love with their ears. The outward handsomeness of the lad notwithstanding, a girl most of all likes to hear words of love everlasting, of how he will be kind and gentle with her and protect her from harm and want to always hold her in the highest respect and esteem.

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    I know, Ezra, that I tend to be a bit impulsive at times, but it all seems so reasonable at the time I do these things, and so unreasonable when everyone looks back at what happened and what I did.

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    I have resolved that each morning when I wake up from now on, I will take three long breaths and think about each of them as I draw them in and let them out, and I will remember that time at the end of that rope when I could not draw such breaths. And then I will look at the blue veins in my wrists and will know that my blood is running through them, and for that I will be grateful. Amen. The.

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    My nature is to be cheerful and my foolish self is very likely to be led astray by happy, frivolous things, things of the moment, and I just can’t help it, Jaimy, I can’t. There is a wildness in me that can’t be denied. I.

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    Well,′ I shrug, all innocent, ’we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don’t we, Mr. Peel?

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    Why, then?” I demand. “It is because, Miss Faber,” says Mr. Peel, smiling one of his very rare smiles. “It is because you can swim.” What?

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