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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.

Barbara Kingsolver

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
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
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
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
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme

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