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"But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete."
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"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."
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"Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else."
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"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
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"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."
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"Love and advise your children unconditionally."
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
God
"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all."
Time
"People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't."
Life
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
Nothing
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
Nature
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."
Family
"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home."
Home
"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout."
Man
"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have."
Heart
"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
Happiness
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