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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
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
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
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
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
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
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

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