Gregory Maguire book Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
“If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and […] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”
— Robert Penn Warren, book All the King's Men
Source: All the King's Men (1946)
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