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Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.Beth Kephart
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Beauty is the worst kind of lie.Beth Kephart
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Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.Beth Kephart
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The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.Beth Kephart
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Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.Beth Kephart
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When I was a boy, that was all I wanted–to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I once tried to glue together with a bottle of Elmer’s; you should have seen your grandmother’s face. But I never got any higher than the backyard fence I’d launch from. I never got inside a cloud. Your raven did.Beth Kephart
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Fox-TrotBy the stream the fox and she-fox stood Nose to nose beneath the stars Dancing the music of the woods. The deer rapped a beat with their hooves, The ravens sang from raven hearts As by the stream the fox and she-fox stood. The great owl called as a great owl would, The squirrels all shimmied in the dark, Dancing the music of the woods. Then from the north a fierce wind blew And broke the starry dance apart By the stream where the fox and she-fox stood. .Beth Kephart
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His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn’t he needed at home?Beth Kephart
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Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.Beth Kephart
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You aren't happy, " Estela says." I can't be happy, " I say." Look at me, Kenzie.""I'm looking at you, Estela.""Do you know your own heart?"" I don't know anything."" Go, " she says, "and think. And don't come back until you know.Beth Kephart