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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
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
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
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
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
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

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