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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.

Barbara Kingsolver

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
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
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Boys Eden Girl
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
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
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
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

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