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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.

Barbara Kingsolver

…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
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
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
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
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love

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