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"Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity."
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."
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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."
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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"
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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."
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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."
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"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."
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"Children are God's gift."
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"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
Creativity

"Who I am to talk? I dream of rain."
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"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by."
Love

"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction."
Direction

"I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all."
Literature

"It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you."
Compassion

"I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them."
Truth

"Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head."
Time

"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
Reading

"She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me."
Love
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