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The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.


Lydia Millet

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Head tells heart how it is, again:
You will lo...
LYDIA DAVIS Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it...
LYDIA NETZER Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
LYDIA M. CHILD That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no...
LYDIA M. CHILD Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M CHILD The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Thy treasures of gold
Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold;
Thy home may be lo...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theat...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and he...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way LYDIA MARIA CHILD Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it sligh...
LYDIA MARIA CHILD But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
LYDIA M. CHILD Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M. CHILD I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as...
LYDIA M. CHILD None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as...
LYDIA M. CHILD You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to con...
LYDIA M. CHILD