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“As she drove the Trace, each curve revealing a scene rich with life and as picturesque as illustrations from a children's book,…

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“Gossip, unless aimed or honed sharp like a weapon, was natural to human beings. It showed interestin oe's fellows, interest in the…

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“Like many people who lasted any length of time in the rescue professions, she'd worn out the 'if' factor pretty quickly. You…

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“Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.”

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God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.

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“bad vibes, an underlying sickness or misery that oozed out around the edges of conversations and interactions.”

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“The shame attached to rape was men’s shame, shame they were too weak to carry: that their gender could do this, that…

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“Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still…

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“EMTs learned to love brave patients--they weren't nearly such a pain in the ass as the whiners--but not to trust them. In…

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“My life is a Stephen King novel,” she whispered. “Everything gets worse. And worse. And worse. When it finally can’t get any…

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Nature was taking back what had once been hers.

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Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm…

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“Dead strangers evoked a smorgasbord of the lesser emotions and served as marvelous educational tools, warnings, and veiled threats. When an acquaintance…

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“Anna drove with the window rolled down, breathing in the essence of autumn: an exhalation of a forest readying itself for sleep,…

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“As a rule it offended her to be rescued, but this one time she would have welcomed it, been gracious even. And…

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“perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her”

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“Hers was an evil-sounding chuckle that Anna loved. The sort of chortle Dorothy might have heard shortly before all hell broke loose…

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Because of our library system anyone in America can educate themselves in any field they desire. If they are confused, librarians (that…

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“From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was.…

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“when she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.”

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“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that…

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“My definition of forgiveness is a sigh, very like a sigh of relief, on which the memory of evil is breathed out.…

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“you use your whole body like you did when you played as a kid. Grown-up amusements don’t allow for crawling and wriggling,…

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“When she finally found her way onto the Trace, the sun was rising and, with it, her spirits. The Natchez Trace Parkway,…

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“Since joining the National Park Service fourteen years ago, Anna had worked every Fourth of July. ... Winding her way through the…

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