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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cure First Kill
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
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
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
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature

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