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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.

Barbara Kingsolver

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia Light
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.

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