"We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up."
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Grace King
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Grace King was a prominent American author known for her vivid portrayals of New Orleans life and her exploration of identity and resilience.
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"The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us."
"Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience."
"The heart and the almanac never agree about time."
"The history of one is the history of all."
"Every heart has a miracle to pray for. Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure. To prove that there have never been, that there can never be, miracles does not alter the matter. So long as there is something hoped for, - that does not come in the legitimate channel of possible events, - just so long will the miracle be prayed for."