When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.
He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.
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Marie Lu
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
A thirst for water may be an oasis in your day.
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Anthony T.Hincks
Your smile is what gets me through the day and my dreams of you are what gets me through the night.
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Anthony T. Hincks
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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Jodi Picoult
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Mary Lou suddenly realizes that Mack calls the temperature number because he is afraid to talk on the telephone, and by listening to a recording, he doesn’t have to reply. It’s his way of pretending that he’s involved. He wants it to snow so he...
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.
Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.
