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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
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
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
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
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables

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