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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
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
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
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
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single

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