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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life 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
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
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
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
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
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

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

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