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- A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention…
- Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
- Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit…
- In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at…
- It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
- Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
- Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that…
- Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one…
- Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
- Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely…
- The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live…
- Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with…
- That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands…
- (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
- This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it…
- I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed…
- A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
- You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
- I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against…
- When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another…
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- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle