Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat.
ADRIANA TRIGIANIBut a child’s joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son’s laughter began to her heart.
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The ship’s manifest showed that they could read and write.
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Don’t worry about bad things that haven’t happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.
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It doesn’t. What matters is what you make. Whether it’s a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.
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The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else,
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The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
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Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room.
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This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships – they can’t. It interferes.
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When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I’ve waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember.
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Let life unfold, say what you mean.
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Motherhood changes everything.
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But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.
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But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened.
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I even love the smell of books.
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And if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.
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But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.
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