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“A woman, in the end, was no single thing, but an amalgam of hurts and dreams, victories and secrets, beauty and ugliness. And if she found another kindred soul in the universe with whom to share the complication of her being, with whom to make of her past a canvas of colliding colors to wonder at, then she was lucky.”
― Water Finds a Way
― Water Finds a Way
“It is possible that I have attached these images to the wrong day in my desire to remember something of my parents, if only the reverberation caused by news of their death. The human craving is for story, not truth. Memory, I believe, embraces its errors, until what is and what is remembered become one.”
― Any Bitter Thing
― Any Bitter Thing
“I had never expected that a daughter of mine would look like Debbie. When I found out I'd be having a girl I had pictured...oh, a small, pale, bony girl with a watchfull stillness to her, and she might wear horn-rimmed glasses and in her teens she wouldn't date much and her friends would address her as Deborah. But children veer out from their parents like so many explorers in the wilderness, I've learned. They're not mere duplicates of them. I was fascinated by that.”
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“Sometimes I suspect that what people really resent is not the change in (grammar). What people resent is being told that the world that they have known has changed, and that even now they have to get used to something new.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
“What she believed was that goodness and badness came out of people because of how they were treated. And if you wanted goodness from others, that's what you let come out of you. And the badness? Well, sometimes it slipped out, too, because no one was all one thing or another, but you forgave yourself when you were not who you wanted to be and you did the same with others. It was a pretty simple way of being, but it was one she could understand and believe in and follow.”
― The River We Remember
― The River We Remember
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