If you have the ability and the opportunity to help someone, but you don't do anything just because you're scared or it's inconvenient or something, then maybe you're just as bad as the people who caused the trouble in the first place.

—Bree Despain in The Lost Saint

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About Bree Despain

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Bree Despain (born 1979) is an American author.

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We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it.

—Bree Despain in The Dark Divine

I'm not used to being at a loss for words.

—Bree Despain in The Shadow Prince

As terrible as the truth was, there was something restful about it.

—Bree Despain in The Dark Divine

Every moment that passes and I am stuck in this room is a moment that I am not working toward accomplishing my quest. Waiting is not acting. And not acting is akin to failing. How can I wait anymore?

—Bree Despain in The Shadow Prince

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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

—Samuel Johnson

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When a poor man knocks at your door and says, "I'm hungry," and your first thought is Why can't you get a job?, you've invaded his privacy. Why would you need to know why he can't get a job? He didn't come to discuss his inabilities or bad habits; he came to discuss his hunger. If you want to do something about it, feed him.

—Rabbi Manis Friedman

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Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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School was a worry to her. She was not glib or quick in a world where glibness and quickness were easily confused with ability to learn.

—Tillie Olsen

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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

—Aldous Huxley

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