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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

Barbara Kingsolver

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
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 do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
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
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way

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