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"It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world, how they are destroyed."
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"God created all people good."
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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."
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"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."
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"I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them."
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"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"
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"And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me."
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"Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone."
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"As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things."
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"This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow."
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"Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline.I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session."
Friendship
"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
Fear
"Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain."
Childhood
"That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence."
Philosophy
"In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings."
Life
"Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity..."
Mindfulness
"My only armor is my belief that life has meaning..."
Faith
"As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul."
Creativity
"Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled."
Love
"Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep."
Ethics
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