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A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.â€… — Wendell Berry
Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something… — Haruki Murakami
It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It… — Tatiana de Rosnay
You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so… — Julie Garwood
I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble… — Susanna Kaysen
From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own. — Elizabeth George Speare
There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster. — Barack Obama
What happened?" Bailey asks. "That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story." "And you're not going to tell… — Erin Morgenstern
It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever… — Pat Conroy
So, if people didnâ€™t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no… — Bill Bryson
To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with… — Ann Patchett
Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an… — Jack Kornfield
You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain. — Kiersten White
We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least… — Cecelia Ahern
What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when… — Nicholas Sparks
To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me… — C.E. Murphy
Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he… — Orhan Pamuk
Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie. — Katherine Mansfield
It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of… — Nancy Horan
She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that… — Alice Munro

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