Nancy Farmer Quotes

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

Nancy Farmer

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• It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

  

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• It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

  

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• A smile is just such an amazing thing. And to think that some of those people can now smile because they can see you, that gives me that sort of charge, energy... that's what powers up my batteries. That's the joy that I have and that keeps me going. That's my rocket fuel, I suppose.

  

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• But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Joy
  • Crime
  • Ignore