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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Barbara Kingsolver

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
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
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening

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