“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder, book The Long Winter

Source: The Long Winter

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American children's writer, diarist, and journalist 1867–1957

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