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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

Barbara Kingsolver

As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
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
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme

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