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It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship.
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She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.
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compassion
healing
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Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?" "I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people."
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No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.
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It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked
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She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~
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motherhood
life-lessons
mothering
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And if you don't believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps you've not made the right kind of memories.
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That's how it is with infants. The minute the pain's gone, so are the tears. If more people would do that, the world would be a happier place.
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My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.
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Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.
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love
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She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true. She believed now. The wonder of setting sail created possibilities she had never considered before.
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You have seven writers in your basement?" Donald nods, signing, "They like it here. There's a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They don't usually make much trouble."
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fiction
writing
susan-wiggs
hotel-angeline
writers
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Wishful thinking is a powerful force.
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An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.
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heart
events
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Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.
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It isn't fair, but maybe that's the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.
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life-lessons
life
mystery
fairness
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Scary thought - what if I get to know myself and I'm someone I don't want to be?
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Susan Wiggs |
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That if you never get your hopes up," she said, taking a sip of hot chocolate, "you'll never be disappointed." "Ouch,"
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Already, Seattle is taking hold of her. She still holds Sedona in the dry tan of her skin and in her hair, but the fine mist of the Northwest is making its way to places she didn't know were parched.
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hotel-angeline
mystery
novel
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She reflects on the girl she had been in this place, and the things she had to do in order to survive. For a long time, she'd had to live her child- hood backward, forced to step up and take charge of things that were thrust into her hands.
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Susan Wiggs |
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Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.
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love
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He could not name precisely the special quality she possessed. A glow. An exuberance. An aggressive and determined joy that gave her the courage to push past his defenses, to confront him with unflinching courage, to look into his heart and to see something there worth fighting for.
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love
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The best way to keep from stumbling over the past was to move forward,
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This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned beetles, flitting hummingbirds and sapphire dragonflies. The sun-warmed sweet haze of the blossoms filled the air. "When I was a kid," said Isabel, "I used to capture butterflies, but I was afraid of the bees. I'm getting over that, though." The bees softly rose and hovered over the flowers, their steady hum ..
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insects
summertime
bubbie
eva-johansen
magnus-johansen
isabel-johansen
butterflies
nature-s-beauty
flowers
memory
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You're right. I have no heart because I lost it to you.
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She loved old things. The brown-brick place was a survivor of the 1907 earthquake and fire, and proudly bore a plaque from the historical society. The building had a haunted history- it was the site of a crime of passion- but Tess didn't mind. She'd never been superstitious. The apartment was filled with items she'd collected through the years, simply because she liked them or was intrigued by them. There was a balance between heirloom and ..
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history
unusual
apartment
heirlooms
kitsch
tess-delaney
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Kyle Bohner,
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There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is--the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It's too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved into her dorm in time for freshman orientation. It's been marked on the kitchen calendar for weeks--the expiration date on her childhood.
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parenting
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For the bee, honey is the ultimate reality. It represents the fulfillment of her life mission, the triumph over her enemies, the continuity of the hive, the justification for working herself to death. Honey is to bees what money in the bank is to people--a measure of prosperity and well-being. But there is nothing abstract or symbolic about honey, as there is about money, which has no intrinsic value. There is more real wealth in a pound of..
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Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.
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just-breathe
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Don't let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do.
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Susan Wiggs |
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Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip, Bubbie used to say. Feed your enemies, and they'll become your friends.
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she leaped down the porch steps to her car. There was no thought. No planning. Just action. When you get a call that your kid is in the ER, there can be no room for thinking. Just the deepest fear imaginable, the kind that gripped like a steel band around her chest.
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There were few forces greater than the power of a fourteen-year-old's determination when she wanted something. A teenager would stop at nothing in order to get her way.
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Susan Wiggs |
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On his very worst day, each one of these men managed to summon his very best. Each one embodied the essence of courage. It is not the state of being unafraid, but the rare ability to confront fear.
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Susan Wiggs |
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The Immigration Reform Act wiped out that option. Used to be, if undocumented parents could prove their deportation would put a U.S. citizen--in this case, you, AJ--at risk, the judge could let them stay. But the act made deportation automatic." She showed them a document she'd printed out. "In the mid-'90s, there were around forty thousand deportations a year. Nowadays, there are around three hundred thousand a year. The INS and ICE will t..
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Susan Wiggs |
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Thank you for all the Acts of Light which beautified a summer now passed to its reward. --letter from Emily Dickinson to Mrs. John Howard Sweetser
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Susan Wiggs |
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. --John Berger, English art critic
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Susan Wiggs |
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What I've found is that you make time for the things that matter to you. Everyone has the time. It's just a question of deciding what to do with that time.
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Susan Wiggs |
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Nobody can fix another person. But everybody tries.
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Susan Wiggs |
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His rough, cold hand grasped her chin. Her heart jolted as she gazed into his moss-gray eyes. "You owe me a forfeit," he said. The breeze plucked at strands of his hair, curling them against his windburned cheeks. She jerked her head away. "Just what is it you want?" "I'll have a kiss from you." The breath left her chest in a rush. Inhaling slowly, she drew in the cold salt air. "That's your forfeit?" "I declare to my soul, this is getting ..
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Susan Wiggs |
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You can't rewind life or undo things.
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Susan Wiggs |
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During the post-breakdown period, she read books the way an addict swallowed pills. She devoured stories one after the other, trying not to let reality intrude too deeply.
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Susan Wiggs |
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And that refuge was the most reliable place of all--between the pages of a book.
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