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The audience was particularly responsive one night, and they gave me a lengthy applause. As I left the stage, I walked by the maître d’. “Go back out there. They want to hear more,” he said. “That’s all I have,” I explained. I reluctantly
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“We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families’ tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.”
― Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
― Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.”
― The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy
― The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy
“How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.”
― Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student
― Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Don't be afraid to make corrections! Whether the voice came from her memory or was a last whisper from the blinding new star far above, Nita never knew. But she knew what to do. While Kit was still on the first part of the name she pulled out her pen, her best pen that Fred had saved and changed. She clicked it open. The metal still tingled against her skin, the ink at the point still glittered oddly- the same glitter as the ink with which the bright Book was written. Nita bent quickly over the Book and with the pen, in lines of light, drew from the final circle an arrow pointing up-ward, the way out, the symbol that said change could happen- if, only if-”
― So You Want to Be a Wizard
― So You Want to Be a Wizard
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