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She ate from my plates and wore my clothes and slept in my bed like Goldilocks while the benevolent, lumbering bear went south for the holidays.


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ANN VOSKAMP Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
ANN VOSKAMP I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
ANN VOSKAMP Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, ab...
ANN VOSKAMP When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catchi...
ANN VOSKAMP Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you som...
ANN VOSKAMP Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create...
ANN VOSKAMP Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness ...
ANN VOSKAMP Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. ...
ANN VOSKAMP Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a t...
ANN VOSKAMP In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect...
ANN VOSKAMP When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
ANN VOSKAMP Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without hav...
ANN LANDERS I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
ANN RICHARDS Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr...
ANN ROMNEY Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan...
ANN LECKIE I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p...
ANN NOCENTI You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.
ANN ROBINSON We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren'...
ANN COULTER