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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
Rumi

Tiffany Baker
“Not like me, who would have given anything to shed my cumbersome skin and bones, stripping myself down to marrow, to nothing more than a gambler's heart, which beat fast and true and still believed that somewhere out there, a deck was stacked entirely in my favor.”
Tiffany Baker, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

Tiffany Baker
“She never understood that love -- especially that of a child -- was the most necessary weight you can endure in life, even if it hurts, even if it tugs bags under the skin of your eyes. Without it, the soul skitters to the edge of the world and teeters there, confused.”
Tiffany Baker, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

Tiffany Baker
“Even back then, I guess, I suspected that sometimes the only available choice in life is to spit on death and run.”
Tiffany Baker, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

Tiffany Baker
“If there was one thing Brenda Dyerson was good at, she knew it, was cooking up the scraps destiny had laid out on its plates for her.”
Tiffany Baker, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

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