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"Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable."
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"The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me."
"None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life."
"You have to work on it. You have to meditate on God's Word, which itself will change you and transform you into the image and character of God."
"The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like."
"Don't judge yourself by your past, you no longer live there."
"What I would be quite wise to remember is that 'pieces' are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be."
"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."
"I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over."
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"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."
"What if someone picks on me?" I askedThen I'll pick on them".What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said."
"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."
"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."
"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."
"Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed as caregivers. But gay people, being both male and female, were seen as both warriors and caregivers. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss Army knives!"
"Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads."
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