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“In the rose garden, the flowers are maneuvering toward the winter sunshine and the alluring sound of the koi pond’s waterfall makes you think it has a crush on you. You offer no resistance—you are done (at least temporarily) with the “regular” world.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: deep, descriptive, fiction, love, make-believe, meaningful, nature, refreshing, romance, self-reflecting

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“My mother—with all the embarrassment and hurt that she caused me in my youth—ended up giving me the drive and the fire I needed to be more and to do more.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: ambitions, dream, driven, family, growth, hopeful-love, love, motivating, teaching

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“I like Miss Lick. Arty always said that was important. “Find a way to like them,” he said. “Like them every minute that you’re with them. If you can like them they’ll be helpless against you.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

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“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, exciting, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit

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“I wanted to get rid of a certain aspect of my character. I was performing a kind of self-abortion with those aspirin. It worked for a while. Then it stopped; but I had no heart to try again.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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