The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
("The Poisonwood Bible")
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.Barbara Kingsolver
It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences.
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Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees!
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Modern US consumers now get to taste less than 1 percent of the vegetable varieties that were grown here a century ago. Those old-timers now lurk only in backyard gardens and on farms that specialize in direct sales--if they survive at all. Many heirlooms have been lost entirely.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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