"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this."

Job, Sorrow

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"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this."

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"Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!"

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"Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people."

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"I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'"

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"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."

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"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."

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"I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled."

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

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"But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone."

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"Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be."

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"Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold."

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