It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American writer, pilot

Diary (1932-09-27), Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (1973)
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Approximately six months after the kidnapping/murder of her son, Charles, Jr., and a month after the birth of her second son, Jon.