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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
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
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Fault Men Way
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Discipline Funny Things Writing
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Believe Moving Writing
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
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
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
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

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