You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
("The Poisonwood Bible")
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Codi Gives you the willies, doesn't it The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop referring to cliff dwellings Loyd No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors--however glad we may be afterward that we went to the trouble.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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