Mary E. Pearson Quotes

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• One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin…
• I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up…
• There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.
• Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side…
• Tell me who I am. (29)
• it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice,…
• There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.
• I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.
• When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?
• I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
• Which weakness shall I tell her? “I walk funny,” I say, and she’s satisfied with that. (inside joke)
• Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.
• My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They…
• The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished…
• Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.
• Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure…
• It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.
• I used to be someone.
• But I am more than a name. More than they tell me
• Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

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