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“I used to sit here on the stoop as a kid and listen to the wind in the trees. It was only a few years ago that I realized this is the one place where it wasn't the wind that I was hearing, it was the trees. The wind was merely the conductor, but the trees were the symphony.”
― Famous in a Small Town
― Famous in a Small Town
“Flowers on the wall remind me spring will come even in the deepest trench of winter. Flowers are hope, you see.”
― Because I Could Not Stop for Death
― Because I Could Not Stop for Death
“True Fun is the confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow. Whenever these three states occur at the same time, we experience True Fun.”
― The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again
― The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again
“Aren't we all descendants of foreigners at this table? Emily asked. Not a single one of us is an Indian, correct?”
― I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
― I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
“Hospitality was not a voluntary action that a person extended to friends and colleagues. It was a society-wide obligation that every household was duty bound to extend to strangers, foreigners, travelers, and sojourners. Because the societal weave was based on familial relationships, the societal welfare demanded that households offer temporary shelter and food to anyone who was brought by life circumstance into a household's territory at the end of a day.”
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