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“You are of me, Loreda, in a way that can never be broken. Not by words or anger or
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It wasn’t the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were
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Only tough women lasted on Texas farmland. “I think he owes her that,” Elsa added.
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full of mercurial moods
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Don’t worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.
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The key to life in this dry heat was conservation of everything: water, food, emotion. That last one was the biggest challenge.
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the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. . . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to
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Hard times don’t last. Love does.
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“No sorries. We fought, we struggled, we hurt each other, so what? That’s what love is, I think. It’s all of it. Tears, anger, joy, struggle. Mostly, it’s durable. It lasts. Never once in all of it—the dust, the drought, the fights with you—never once did I stop loving you or Ant or the farm.”
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The library. Books held the answer to every question.
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“Yeah,” he said. “But life is more than what happens to us, Elsa. We have choices to make.” “I’m not a brave woman.” “And yet here you are, standing at the edge of battle.”
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Grandma were warrior women. Nothing stopped them when they’d made up their minds.
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look. “Remember, cara, hard times don’t last. Land and
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“Will you trust me?” “Why?” “There’s no why to trust. It either is or isn’t. Will you trust me?”
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“My grandfather was a Texas Ranger. He used to tell me that courage was a lie. It was just fear that you ignored.” She looked at him. “Well, I’m scared.
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Now, in these dark days, we can look to history, to the legacy of the Greatest Generation and the story of our own past, and take strength from it.