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There's too much information out there. And not enough smart people.
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Fatal is fatal, but it doesn't have to be all downhill.
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It's not that you like being sad, but you start to see the value of it. You don't judge sadness so harshly.
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In some ways, Mary thought, Irma lived her whole life anxious to get things over with, as if she knew the end of her story all along, and didn't feel the middle pages worth the effort of a read.
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Mary reached into her vinyl purse and extracted one of the novels, each of whose covers had promised laughter and tears. She began to read and, finding a masterful storyteller behind its pages, was instantly and gratefully transported to another place.
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Remy didn't suggest an ounce of discourtesy, but only had a different way of talking. It's something Chester'd learned, how a person's words did not always disclose the intention of his heart. He'd been called fine things by people who feared and loathed him, and slanderous things by people who thought well on him but were ignorant.
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You don't know if you ruined your kids or if they were born that way.
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you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're okay with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.
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AND ALL THE OTHER SOULS WHO GOT LEFT AND CURSED BY THOSE THAT SHOULD HAVE LOVED AND CARED.
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The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls. The
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Wake in bed and know, because dreams are not true, that the sun will be shining and it will not storm today.
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I believe it was the Lord...for who else could know your trouble and ours and bring us together in this right way?
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You do good mothering.
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When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.
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family-relationships
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Feeling the wind rush in through the broken window, Mary thought of how Gooch would say, "You're letting out the heat," when she kept the door open, and "You're letting out the cold," when her nose was in the Kenmore. It struck her that there must be some other door left open through which she'd let out Gooch." --
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It was Aunt Lovey's belief that all ordinary people led extraordinary lives, but just didn't notice.
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How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all.
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Shelley says some people were born on third base and some people were born outside the ballpark, and the journey to home plate ain't the same for all. Wouldn't it be better for everyone to, like, find a way to get everybody in the game?
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Plus vieux, tu comprendras que, malgre les apparences, il n'y a pas de bon ou mauvais moment. Il y a un moment, point final.
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