

“How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.”
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”
― Court Duel
― Court Duel

“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
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“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”
― Chronicles of Avonlea
― Chronicles of Avonlea
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