Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
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Walter Mosley
One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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Mitch Albom
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note,...
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Douglas Adams
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
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C.s. Lewis
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
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Jandy Nelson
More Quotes By Karen Swallow Prior
I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale bread.
Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn't get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings.
From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.
A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all that is expected or desired in a woman,...
…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on their husbands and sons, on their relations, their servants, and...
