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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Barbara Kingsolver

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
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
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
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
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

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