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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

Barbara Kingsolver

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
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
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups

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