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"Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players."
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"
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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."
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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."
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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"
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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."
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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."
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"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."
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"Mom means miracles of a magical life."
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"I could forget that part, but it had to have been true."
Transformation
"Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not."
Love
"It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package."
Integrity
"I don't get why prom is like a mini - wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance."
Trust
"When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog."
Life
"Often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else's loss."
Leadership
"Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape - shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another."
Fate
"If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy."
Emotion
"We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they choose. If they want to remind you forevermore that they exist, they will. They can reappear in a card or call or a 'chance' meeting, they can remember your birthday or the day you met with some innocuous small note. No matter how little they matter in your new life, they can insist on being seen and recognized and remembered."
Boundaries
"A relationship could be a place to hide too."
Relationship
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