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Rebecca didn’t always like having such a big church family. Some were hard to love: Sister Isaacs who cried when she said her testimony and then blew her nose with a honking sound; Brother Minder who said “ain’t” and used double negatives;
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“... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”
― The House at Riverton
― The House at Riverton

“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― The Other Hand
― The Other Hand

“You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.”
― The Forgotten Garden
― The Forgotten Garden

“He’s lived the life he’s lived. He’s loved the woman he’s loved. No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on this earth, and that’s all right by him.”
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“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”
― The Whistling Season
― The Whistling Season
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