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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Barbara Kingsolver

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
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
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

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