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Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.
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You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
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Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.
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What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
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Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
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pg-51
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In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?
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It seems to me that we can't explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can't fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn't as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, m..
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A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.
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Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears," Gram said. "If you have three or four -or more - chickabiddies, you're dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don't have time to think about anything else. And if you've only got one or two, it's almost harder. You have room left over - empty spaces that you think you've got to fill up."
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You never know the worth of water until the well is dry.
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I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.
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Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.
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but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.
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The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.
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I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.
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Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?
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On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.
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And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?
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when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive" --
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Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.
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I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice.
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Am I supposed to do something ? It doesn't seem enough to merely take up space on this planet in this country in this state in this town in this family.
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My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.
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I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.
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how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?
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love
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I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.
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Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie
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So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.
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I was full of struggles! And that made me so happy: If I was full of struggles, maybe I was interesting!
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I could tell you an extensively strange story, I warned. Oh, good! Gram said. Delicious!
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I am still jealous that Phoebe's mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother.
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What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked? (p 153)
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time
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By the time I got to the bottom, I understood what Guthrie ment when he shouted LIBERO! It was a celebration of being alive.
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I'm New-" "New? How blessed," he said. "There's nothing in this whole wide world that is better than a new person!"
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I had not said anything about what had happened the day before--about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one.
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fear
change
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It was as if I were carrying around all the places I'd ever lived, and nothing I was seeing was just what it was - it was all of the places, all smooshed together. My bubble was fairly bursting by the time I got home, what with all that stuff crammed in there.
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Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one? Maybe I am unfinished, an unfinished angel.
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What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.
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life
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I think Mr. Robert Frost has a little too much time on his hands.
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A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. "I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I'll be driving you."
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irishmen
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Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?
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She told how the fear had slipped away through the year, 'slipped away silently and secretly', and how we mustn't be afraid to try new things.
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Lizzie said that if you imagined you were standing on the moon, looking down on the earth, you wouldn't be able to see the itty-bitty people racing around worrying you wouldn't see the barn falling in or the cow stuck in the pond; you wouldn't see the mean Granger kids squirting mustard on your white dress. You would see the most beautiful blue oceans and green lands, and the whole earth would look like a giant blue-and-green marble floatin..
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I wondered If things that might seem frightening could lose their hold over you. I wondered If we find the people we need when we need them. I wondered If we attract our future by some sort of invisible force, or If we are drawn to it by a similar force. I felt I was turning a corner and that change was afoot.
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