Beth Kephart Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.
• Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative…
• 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.…
• Here’s another change I’ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It’s what you can’t…
• Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.
• You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.
• 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…
• 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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