My thoughts kept straying onto random paths...hoping to get lost in a thicket.
("Animal Dreams")
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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.Barbara Kingsolver
And all of us with our closed eyes smelled the frangipani blossoms in the big rectangles of open wall, flowers so sweet they conjure up sin or heaven, depending on which way you are headed.
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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
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I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows
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