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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

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 talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
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
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
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
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

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