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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
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
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
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
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

…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

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