Jessica Stern Quotes

#1. You are significantly more likely to die in a car accident, especially if you fail to wear a seat belt, than to be attacked by ISIS. Wear your seat belt

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#2. After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately. (xiii)

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#3. I believe the best revenge is to live. (136)

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#4. I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

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#5. But in the mountains, I was forgiven. And my dad was forgiven, too. (266)

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#6. I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.

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#7. Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.

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#8. What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage." (137)

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#9. Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.

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#10. Never give up hope, spring will come.

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#11. My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264

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#12. I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, Never give up hope, spring will come.

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#13. That man penetrated me with his shame. Shame, I realize now, is an infectious disease. Shame can be sexually transmitted. (107)

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