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Nancy Willard
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“If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.”
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“Lost things, she felt certain, had a life of their own. They came back to their families like stray dogs.”
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“ What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.”
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“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
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“I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?”
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“... the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.”
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“Faith takes root in the insignificant.”
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“What you need will come back to you.”
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“We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.”
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“Live in your roots, not in your branches.”
Nancy Willard, U.S. novelislt, children's writer, illustrator
(1936)