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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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
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
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

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