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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Barbara Kingsolver

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Believe Father Mistake
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
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
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
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
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
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
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once

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