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    Marilynne Robinson
    “It was the seahorses themselves that she wanted to see as soon as she took her eyes away, and that she wanted to see even when she was looking at them.”
    ― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Amy Greene
    “Some creatures are just meant to be left alone. They can’t be held on to, even if we love them more than anything.”
    ― Amy Greene
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: writing
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “[Her father] never minded when there was nothing to shoot, and she never minded when there was. The harsh crack of the rifle and the limp rabbits and doves were the practical cost of the joy of those mornings.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, House Broken
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  • #6
    Joan Didion
    “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
    ― Joan Didion
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    Wallace Stevens
    “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: poetry, truth
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
    6233 likes

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  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #10
    Dante Alighieri
    “Do not be afraid; our fate
    Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
    tags: faith, fate, fear
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  • #11
    Dante Alighieri
    “As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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  • #12
    Sonja Yoerg
    “No one tells you how hard it is to be this cool.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, House Broken
    tags: teens
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “The past wasn’t a guest you could ask to leave when you tired of its company. No, the past put up its feet and meant to stay.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg
    tags: past, regret
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “Trying to understand her teenage daughter’s behavior was like trying to listen to a recording of a symphony whose volume vacillated unpredictably from barely audible to deafening. She couldn’t hear the music, and all she wanted to do was leave the room.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, House Broken
    tags: children, parenting, teens
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mother’s feelings for her.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, House Broken
    tags: compassion, daughter, mothers, mothers-and-daughters
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  • #16
    Sonja Yoerg
    “Death was a cold and endless place. At least life served vodka.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, House Broken
    tags: alchoholism, death, humor
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  • #17
    Sonja Yoerg
    “It was morning distilled, the sun rising on a quiet world, a mute witness. To Liz, it was both the oldest miraculous event, and the newest. This one belonged to her, and she to it.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, The Middle of Somewhere
    tags: inspirational, morning, nature
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “Here, at the edge of this lake, on the broad flank of this mountain range, under the boundless sky in the middle of nowhere, she was small and bare and completely inconsequential…On this journey, she would travel deep into the indifferent wilderness to discover what was possible for her, and what could not be undone.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, The Middle of Somewhere
    tags: inspirational, nature, wilderness
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “Hiking’s not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, The Middle of Somewhere
    tags: hiking, nature, wilderness
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “Getting closer to someone doesn’t necessarily clarify anything. It’s like staring at an electron micrograph. You’re closer but nothing’s any simpler.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, The Middle of Somewhere
    tags: love, relationships
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “She had gills while other people were breathing with lungs. There was, however, no point in dwelling on it, as it was too later to grow up differently.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, The Middle of Somewhere
    tags: dysfunction, growing-up, relationships
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “Courage lays within easy reach of a child who knows nothing of how easily understanding can unravel, leaving a set of rules that apply to nothing, and an empty heart.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, The Middle of Somewhere
    tags: childhood, courage, dysfuction
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “But for her there was no possibility of a clear conscience, merely the weak absolution of honesty, of confession.
    She could not buy into the cycle of sin and penance. She would always remember what she had done, and it would always sting. She would not be washed clean.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, The Middle of Somewhere
    tags: honesty, regret, sin
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “What goodness she might hold in her heart had been overshadowed by her actions, again and again, She wasn’t a bad person, but she might was well be.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, The Middle of Somewhere
    tags: morality, regret, sin
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “Alison's words were falling stones. Carole reached to grab them, to hold them, to put them in order. It was so hard, the stones so heavy. The words kept coming. Her daughter's face was before her, her lovely, dear face, and she could no nothing to help her. Not now, not while the voices were drowning her out, burying sense and decency and love.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “The groan of the lake was the earth tuning for a song she was desperate to hear.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People
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  • #28
    Sonja Yoerg
    “The careless arrows of misfortune were tangents glancing off the pure circle of her dreams.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People
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  • #29
    Sonja Yoerg
    “Summer was down to the last lick of ice cream before the cone collapsed.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People
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    Sonja Yoerg
    “What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.”
    ― Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People
    tags: family, heredity, inspirational, mental-illness
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