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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

Barbara Kingsolver

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
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
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
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
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
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger

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