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The best growing hours are before midnight.”
If I ever go missing I want my picture on a beer bottle instead of a milk carton. That way, my friends will know I’m missing.
Del found courthouses fascinating representations of a city and its population. Within its rooms people recited wedding vows, wills were probated after lives lived, and titles changed hands on land and on buildings. Fortunes were made and lost in civil suits. Lives were condemned in capital murder cases. Families were irrevocably altered. The building held so much joy and so much sorrow.
waiting to learn if science could do what nature apparently could not.
Moving forward doesn’t mean forgetting the past. Moving forward means doing something about the past.
“Sleep is like sex.” “How’s that?” “The less you have the more you crave it.”
“I guess that’s why the horses actually run the race,”
“Everyone can speculate on the winner, but until they run, nobody really knows the outcome.”
“Listen, don’t worry about something that hasn’t happened yet. It hasn’t happened yet, right?”
Hope became something to cling to when there was nothing else but despair.
Color is a fact of life, Del. The people who say they don’t see color, or race, are the people who do. We see good-looking people and funny people, obnoxious people. Why shouldn’t we see something so obvious as color?”
“In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you learn not to fear them. You learn to embrace them, to welcome them.”
her. “It isn’t going to be better, Maggie. It’s going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time. What you have to realize is that crying is God’s way of helping us wash away the pain. So don’t you ever apologize for crying; it’s a reminder to us all that we’re human, and that we love our family with
our entire being. And that’s a beau...
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“If you go in thinking you’re going to lose, you’ve already lost. If you go in thinking you’re going to win, you’ll be disappointed if you lose. So just go in to the competition with the attitude that you’re going to compete, which is all you can control anyway.”
