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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
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
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
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking

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