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

Barbara Kingsolver

I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
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
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Alone Being Life Writing

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