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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Ada Balance Trying
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
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
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
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
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
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids

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