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Chapter1
1. Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). Billy Graham in Quotes, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

Chapter 2
1. Mehmet Murat Ildan, “Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, Turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!” U Turn Quotes, Goodreads, 2023, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/u-turn.

2. “For the LORD your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from your if you return to him.” (2 Chronicles 30:9b NIV).

Chapter 3 
1. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis Pte. Ltd, 1952. New York, HarperCollins Publishers.

Chapter 4 
1. “Mandalay” is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890 and first collected in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses in 1892. The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British India. “Mandalay,” The Kipling Society, 2023, https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_
mandalay.htm.

Chapter 5
1. Belinda Stotler, “Promises of a New Day,” Family Friend Poems, 2019, https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/user/belinda-stotler-1533/.

Chapter 6
1. Oscar Wilde, quoted in Gracious Quotes, accessed July 28, 2022, https://graciousquotes.com/memories-quotes/. 

Chapter 7
1. Kevin Arnold, “The Wonder Years,” recorded in Gracious Quotes, accessed July 28, 2022, https://graciousquotes.com/memories-quotes/. 

Chapter 8
1. Anonymous, quoted in Gracious Quotes, accessed July 28, 2022, https://graciousquotes.com/memories-quotes/. 

Chapter 9
1. Justin Young, “Your life is fleeting,” Inspiring Quotes, accessed January 21, 2023, https://www.inspiringquotes.us/topic/1513-fleeting/page:3. 

Chapter 10
1. Aharon Appelfeld, quoted in Quote Stats, 2023, https://quotestats.com/topic/quotes-about-searching-for-something-more/.

Chapter 11
1. Robin Wasserman, quoted in Quote Stats, 2023, https://quotestats.com/topic/quotes-about-searching-for-something-more/.

Chapter 12
1. Carson McCullers, quoted in Goodreads, 2023, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3506.
Carson_McCullers.

Chapter 13
1. Keats, quoted in Goodreads, 2023, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/
2. Nita Tin, “Darling Heart,” October 16, 2000.

Chapter 14
1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “How Do I Love Thee” (Sonnet 43), 1850, accessed on September 14, 2020, . Public domain.
2. Elizabeth Barret Browning, Sonnet 43.

Chapter 15
1. Nita Tin, “The Refiner’s Fire,” March 29, 2003

Chapter 16
1. Lynn MacKinnon, “The Pit or the Pendulum,” author’s version of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Pit and the Pendulum,” Hello Poetry, September 2014, https://hellopoetry.com/words/pendulum/.

Chapter 17
1. Rebecca Ratcliff, “‘Revolution Dwells in The Heart’: Myanmar’s Poets Cut Down by the Military,” Rights and Freedom Myanmar, May 16, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/may/17/revolution-dwells-in-the-heart-myanmars-poets-cut-down-by-the-miltary

2. “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes; with your right hand you save me,” Psalm 138:7 NIV.

3. Thomas Mosie Lister, “Till The Storm Passes By” (1958), 2022, https://popularhymns.com/till-the-storm-passes-by.

Chapter 18
1. Nita Tin, “Darling Heart,” October 16, 2000.

Chapter 19
1. Rumi, “The Minute I Heard My First Love Story,” Poetry Verse, accessed January 21, 2023https://www.poetryverse.com/rumi-poems/the-first-love-story. 

Chapter 20
1. Henry David Thoreau, Goodreads, 2023, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10280670-it-is-the-beauty-within-us-that-makes-it-possible. 

2. Darren Paul Thorn, Goodreads, 2023, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/
16119263.Darren_Paul_Thorn.

Chapter 21
1. Nita Tin, “Darling Heart,” October 16, 2000

Chapter 22
1. Bernie Siegel, Goodreads, 2023, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/636786-embrace-each-challenge-in-your-life-as-an-opportunity-for.

Chapter 23
1. Melissa McClone, Mistletoe Magic, November 21, 2013. Goodreads, 2023. 
2. Nita Tin, “The Refiner’s Fire,” March 29, 2003

Chapter 24
1. Russell Gehrlein, “Those Whom God Uses to Heal,” The Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, March 30, 2020, https://tifwe.org/those-whom-god-uses-to-heal/. An additional quote from this source: “His power to heal can flow through you to others in very practical ways. You know the limitations of medicine that often fail to bring healing to many of these finite bodies. You know that when medicine fails, death is not the end. You can bring comfort to those who mourn. You also know that complete healing of the mind, body, and soul is ultimately found in Christ alone. Those whom God uses to heal, keep doing this great work, in His strength and for His glory.” 

Chapter 25
1. Edgar Albert Guest, “Trouble,” Internet Poem, accessed April 6, 2022, https://internetpoem.com/edgar-albert-guest/trouble-poem/.

Chapter 26
1. Harry William Robbins, “Candy Striped Caresses,” All Poetry, accessed September 14, 2022, https://allpoetry.com/poem/7230573-Candy-Striped-Caresses-by-penman.

Chapter 27
1. Jack London, Goodreads, 2023, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/69941-life-is-not-always-a-matter-of-holding-good-cards. 

Chapter 29
1. Chuck Swindoll, “Going . . . Yet Not Knowing,” Insight for Living Ministries Resources, August 12, 2015, https://insight.org/resources/article-library/individual/going-yet-not-knowing.

Chapter 32
1. Martha Snell Nicholson, “Treasures.” Treasures. Moody Press, 1952. Public domain.

Chapter 33
1. Kay Arthur, co-founded Precept Ministries International in 1970, based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Precept is an interdenominational Christian evangelical organization whose stated mission is to engage people in relationship with God through knowing His Word.

Chapter 34
1. Oscar Wilde, Gracious Quotes, accessed February 3, 2023, https://graciousquotes.com/contentment/.

Chapter 36
1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Kind Hearts,” accessed via Goodreads, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/783751-kind-hearts-are-the-gardens-kind-thoughts-are-the-roots

Chapter 37
1. Langston Hughes, “The American Dream,” All Poetry, accessed January 21, 2023, https://allpoetry.com/Let-America-Be-America-Again. 

2. From a local magazine clipping dated 1982. The original and its citation information was lost in a flooded basement.

Chapter 39
1. Elisha Hoffman, “I Must Tell Jesus,” public domain, 1894, Hymnary.org, https://hymnary.org/text/i_must_tell_jesus_all_of_
my_trials.

Chapter 41
1. Alice Morris, “Come Walk with Me,” February 2015, accessed March 29, 2022, https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1079505/come-walk-with-me/

2. “Footprints in the Sand,” Often signed “Author Unknown,” credit is sometimes given to Mary Stevenson, Margaret Fishback Powers, or Carolyn Joyce Carty, who have all registered copyrights for the poem, according to https://www.poetryfoundation.org. This version is credited to Powers, who wrote the most widely-recognized version of this poem during a time when she was “searching for direction and faced a crossroads in her life.” The Crosswalk Devotional, contributing writer: Candice Lucey, April 16, 2020, www.crosswalk.com.

3. Larnell Harris, “The Strength of the Lord,” LyricsMode, 2018, https://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/l/larnelle_harris/
the_strength_of_the_lord.html

Chapter 42
1. “Footprints in the Sand.” Credited to Mary Stevenson, this 1939 copy of the poem was authenticated as genuine by a forensic specialist and said to be approximately fifty-plus years old. This would pre-date any claims made by others of authorship, including Margaret Fishback-Powers, who was said to have written it 1964, accessed March 4, 2021, footprints-in the-sand.com. 

2. Fanny Crosby, “Saved by Grace,” Hymnary.org, accessed January 28, 2023, https://hymnary.org/hymn/RH2011/page/389.

Chapter 43
1. St. Augustine of Hippo, Lord, teach me to praise Thee, “Confessions.” https://www.vatican.va/spirit/documents/spirit_
20020821_agostino_en.html

Chapter 44
1. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan, 1962, reprint, 1986), 93.

This section contains the Notes and Bibliography from Heartbeat of a Survivor: From Golden Pagodas to a Soul Set Free. Included here are the Scripture references, acknowledgements of sources, and background materials that supported Nita Tin’s writing process. These notes offer a deeper context and serve as a valuable resource for personal reflection, book clubs, or group study. All Scripture quotations and cited materials are included with gratitude and respect for their original sources.

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