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“It is almost impossible to describe happiness,because at the time it feels entirely natural as if all the r est of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is.”
― Margaret George

“Aunts standing close in the kitchen llike cigaretts in the pack, uncles splayed on furniture like butts in the ashtray.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“One of those hot, rainy days where you feel like you're breathing your own breath out of a paper bag.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead