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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
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"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother."
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"I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them."
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"My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working."
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"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"You're not famous until my mother has heard of you."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."
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"It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. How unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers."
Love
"This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did."
Life
"Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question."
Emotion
"Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters."
Devotion
"Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends."
Life
"You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?""I've a knife in my boot," she said, and then wondered, for a moment, if she could throttle a moose with her bare hands."
Humor
"Did you ever love someone," Lucy says, "and know they love you, and you're attracted to them, and you know they're attracted to you, and so many things are exactly right, but it doesn't matter, because the few things that are wrong are completely, totally fucked?"
Love
"What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face."
Exploration
"For most of the process, nothing but faith, fueled by your own stubbornness, will be pulling you along. The work that you've done on the book so far won't be much comfort, because so much of it will be insufferable crap, until the very last moment, when you figure out how to fix it and everything comes together."
Persistence
"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."
Risk
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