The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows
("Animal Dreams")
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When we came home from the movie Hallie cried. Not because of the people who gave up life and limb only to lose Spain to Franco, and not for the ones who came back and were harassed for the rest of their lives for being Reds. The tragedy for Hallie was that there might never be a cause worth risking everything for in our lifetime.Barbara Kingsolver
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to understand favorite foods as processes, not just products.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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