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The feet of the new sufferings followed the feet of the old, and still they surprised.
“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
“People with 4p- shared an absence of something. How could this create a presence of something? How could deletion create addition? It seemed both a mystery and a metaphor . A so-called deficit could surprise you. A so-called deficit could create an attribute.”
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Like Water for Chocolate
― Like Water for Chocolate
“In every one one of us, there's a tendency to run. There's a belief that happiness is not possible here and now, so we have the tendency to run into the future in order to look for happiness.”
― How to Walk
― How to Walk
“...in my daughter’s first year, I was learning: the simple act of loving her was countercultural.”
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
― Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
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