After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We were in the middle of building the barn and one lake, for the horses, when I became ill. DAWN KELSCH I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN The depression, the anxiety. We were threatening divorce. We were just surviving day to day. DONN BELAIR A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS That’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes ... STEPHANIE PERKINS If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it." A feeling of warmt... RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness.... RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice. "Not where I should have b... RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun. RENEE AHDIEH Whoa, man. You're talking about a barn burner. We didn't come out with the most enthusiasm and we ha... CHUCK WILSON We were going to retire to Louisiana, but my brother died and then my sister-in-law died, and we los... DEE WHALEY Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul. RENEE AHDIEH After we didn't find our suspects initially, we moved out into the neighborhood to search other home... SAM ALLEN He gave everything to everybody. Except to me. J.K. ROWLING Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasi... JOHN GREEN Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasi... JOHN GREEN I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,... MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I d... CANDACE BUSHNELL I remember that day in early May after Le Vesconte's and Private Pilkington's brief joint burial ... DAN SIMMONS This was a big game for us after that loss when we didn't play well. We had a talk before the game a... MALIK ALLEN While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,Let u... IRVING BERLIN The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea... ALAN BENNETT I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When... GEORGE TAKEI When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learne... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... ANGELA CARTER Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives. SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca... SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria] SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ... SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14. SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey] SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou... SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave. SEX AND THE CITY I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black. SEX AND THE CITY Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one. SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!" SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me. SEX AND THE CITY Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a... SEX AND THE CITY I knew I wanted a handbag, but they were so pricey. I love Marc Jacobs. SEX AND THE CITY All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves... SEX AND THE CITY 'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire. SEX AND THE CITY Sex and the City. SEX AND THE CITY Suicide is not glamorous and should not be portrayed in a glamorous light. SEX AND THE CITY When an opportunity comes, I don't question it. I grab it, drop its ring on the nightstand and swing... SEX AND THE CITY Having money isn't the answer but it makes your life a hell of a lot nicer. 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VIRGINIA POSTREL The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commerc... VIRGINIA POSTREL It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or... VIRGINIA WOOLF The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but ... VIRGINIA WOOLF So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by l... VIRGINIA WOOLF For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It h... VIRGINIA WOOLF Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all ... VIRGINIA WOOLF All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point VIRGINIA WOOLF Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of ro... VIRGINIA WOOLF Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written ... VIRGINIA WOOLF I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I... VIRGINIA WOOLF We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. VIRGINIA WOOLF I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by the... VIRGINIA SATIR Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! VIRGINIA WOOLF It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entir... VIRGINIA WOOLF The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. VIRGINIA WOOLF Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever t... VIRGINIA WOOLF At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. VIRGINIA WOOLF These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect t... VIRGINIA WOOLF It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. VIRGINIA WOOLF I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying ... VIRGINIA MADSEN If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not abo... VIRGINIA WOOLF Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. VIRGINIA WOOLF As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Sin... VIRGINIA POSTREL My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring... VIRGINIA WOOLF The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the wor... VIRGINIA POSTREL Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes mino... VIRGINIA POSTREL We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by fi... VIRGINIA WOOLF I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.... VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. VIRGINIA WOOLF What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. VIRGINIA WOOLF It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and... VIRGINIA WOOLF I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. Tha... VIRGINIA WADE When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, ho... VIRGINIA POSTREL