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You see, I’m utterly desperate for an adventure.

The back and forth is annoying

So, Tony, I remind you, the roots can only grow in stony, difficult ground. The pruner’s shears cut deep. The grapes are crushed and kept in the dark for decades for the sake of the sweetness. For this very moment.

Ellen, the older I get, the more convinced I am that every hurt the world has ever known is somehow the fault of every person who ever lived. Maybe not directly and never entirely, but somehow I fear, we own all of the world’s hurts together.

But something bigger, undefinable, gave Kendrick hope that the old man meant nothing but good.

He pondered how a trunk could become so gnarled. It must have taken a great force to torque such a massive object. Or had some small force early in the trees life dictated its course of growth?
You can bend a twig, but not a tree.

Good morning st minnette. You are strong. And you are brave. And you are kind. Even when you are sad.

Sadness might be many things, but it is rarely stupid. The good sadness, I think, is always trying to tell us something important.

Maybe that’s how you learn truths about yourself, when you are withered down to nothing so it’s easy to see what’s left.