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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Barbara Kingsolver

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Poetry Summer Thinking
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
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia Light
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening

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