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Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose
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“Grief is a pilgrimage, a long song, a poem that is never quite finished.”
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“Perhaps spirituality is another word for curiosity.”
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“There is choice. We can suffer or make miracles.”
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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. MARY SHELLEY”
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“Distant shareholders have no understanding of the damage caused by their investments.”
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“Parenting is a long lesson in letting go.”
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“The Franklin didn’t only belong to Tasmanians. Nor our forests. They belonged to the world. We were custodians.”
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“There is an intelligence at work in my body. I am in awe. I had, until then, been pretty certain my brain ran everything. Not so, said the wise labouring body. Not so.”
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“Nothing is solved. We go on and the scar tissue gets a little more pliable. It will never not be sad. It will never not hurt. It will go on being at the heart of my mother, my father, my brother, my sister and me. We are five of the millions and millions of people who walk this world carrying our grief in a knotted scarf and hoping it will not come undone.”
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“Along with a career, four children and a husband, she bakes and cooks, sews, preserves, sings, embroiders, gardens, arranges flowers, decorates cakes, and makes kayaks and pottery.”
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“Physicists now know that 70 per cent of the known universe is dark energy. Dark matter is another 25 per cent. Once we thought we knew all about life, but it turns out everything we think of as reality is less than 5 per cent.”
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“it feels as if this big tree must have a direct connection to whoever is in charge.”
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