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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
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
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

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