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“...Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching-forward names, not looking-back ones.”
― The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
― The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
“The library is like a candy store where everything is free.”
― Songs of Willow Frost
― Songs of Willow Frost
“I probably always will be. But I’ve been mad all my life, and I finally figured out that I couldn’t keep carrying that with me. It’s too heavy and I’m too tired. Time will take care of it, like it does everything else.”
― The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
― The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
“I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“There's a story unfolding with a definite beginning and an eventual end, and even though we can't begin to imagine what the whole plot is, and we can hardly even see beyond the present moment, someday we're going to see and understand all of it. For now, we trust. Later, we'll know.”
― I'll Watch the Moon
― I'll Watch the Moon
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