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"Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother."
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"If you take a stand [for God] and mean it, you may suffer persecution. Some of your friends will drift away. They don't want to be with people like you. You speak to their conscience. They feel uncomfortable in your presence because you live for God."

"Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man."

"Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?"

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."

"Go! Yes, You! Go! I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me. Unconditional love has a condition inside it but there is no you in me. If I know my real me, then I know your real you. I know your value in me and I also know my value in you. If your value is not in me and my value is not in you, then I will not force you to like me; I will not force you to love me, so go!"

"Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn't splash back on us."

"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."

"To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me,like the river loves the sea."

"When I'm with you,I feel exposed.Naked. When I'm naked with you, I feel clothed.Sheltered."
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"In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15)."

"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."

"It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."

"You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own."

"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."
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