We grow too old to lose old friends.
BETH KEPHARTNature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.
More Beth Kephart Quotes
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I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.
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Words are the weights which hold our history in place.
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Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.
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How do you know when an apology is true-when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?
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Step out from behind the words. When you’re a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they’re not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
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You know how a river goes on and on? That’s my love for you.
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Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.
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Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.
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In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.
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Nothing erodes [a mother’s love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.
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Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.
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