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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”
― The Second Coming
― The Second Coming
“It’s also crucial to keep in mind that no matter how nonsensical and frustrating our child’s feelings may seem to us, they are real and important to our child. It’s vital that we treat them as such in our response.”
― The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
― The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
“[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”
― Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games
― Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games
“Adah held the baby whenever Leah would put him down, and the joy of him lifted years from her face and the pain from her bones. But the illness that had wasted her strength could not be cured by even the greatest joy. And one morning she did not rise from her blanket.”
― The Red Tent
― The Red Tent
“If she put them to bed and left them, there would be pandemonium. Cecily would not stay in bed at all and romped gaily about the room, and Beth and Mary would begin to argue, starting with a simple remark like ‘Beth, I can’t get to sleep with you sniffing,’ and finishing with a general commotion of crying and quarrelling. So Mother resigned herself to stay with them as they fell asleep, and she sat, with the littlest one snuggled on her lap, in the room dimly glowing with candle-light, softly astir with the breathing and sighing and turning over of children settling for the night.”
― The Hawk and the Dove
― The Hawk and the Dove
Laura ’s 2025 Year in Books
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