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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.

Barbara Kingsolver

If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
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
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
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.
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People Terrible Thinking
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want

But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.

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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.

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