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“My husband is the prototype for all of God’s molds. I never doubted who and what I am to him, and, well, it may come as a surprise, but I am an impossible woman to love. And yet.”
“When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.”
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“I think of how Grandma makes fun of love. And maybe that’s the key.”
― The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
― The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
―
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
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“If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)”
― The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
― The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”
― Joe Turner's Come and Gone
― Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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