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suppose, when your parents fail you, you either go to pieces or you become the grown-up you require.
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“It's strange how teachers can go off to college for all those years to learn to become teachers, but some of them never learn the easy stuff. Like making kids laugh. And making sure they know that you love them.”
― Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
― Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“We can't change things by wishing. Only by doing. It's our actions, Tara, not our thoughts.”
― The One I Left Behind
― The One I Left Behind
“Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.”
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“Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.”
― The Time Between
― The Time Between
Fonville Winans, Photographer
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For fans of the photographer Fonville Winans. Winans famously photographed Louisiana's Depression-era Cajuns, and in doing so documented a hardscrabbl ...more
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