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"You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness."
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"Mother belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away."
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"Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness."
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"No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch.""Good," Sanjit said."Good? Why good?""Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you."
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"I do know that I don't want to wake him.We were up very late last night."
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"You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy."
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Personal Development
"You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness."
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".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."
Memory
"Time flies with you."
Romance
"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
Parenting
"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
Family
"What was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. Thependulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flowof time completely."
Destiny
"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
Family
"The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization."
Reflection
"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
Relationship
"That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays."
Spiritual
"...But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins."
Heritage
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