And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Arthur Golden
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  2. When God Created Mothers"When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?"... - Erma Bombeck

  3. The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  4. The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. - Karl Lagerfeld

  5. I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. - Anne Lamott

More Quotes By Arthur Golden
  1. If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

  2. Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

  3. We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

  4. Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

  5. Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

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