The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.


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Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? ...
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is th...
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The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on ...
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but ...
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The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself wit...
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If it crosses your mind that water running through hundreds of miles of open ditch in a desert will ...
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Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to in...
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lor...
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains ...
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Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tra...
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves...
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You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep l...
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Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eterni...
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Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cat...
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What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know h...
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physi...
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to...
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhe...
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that...
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Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machine...
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To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyon...
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I don't expect to see perfection before I die. Lord, if I did I would have stuck my head in the oven...
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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You're thinking of revolution as a great all-or-nothing. I think of it as one more morning in a mugg...
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feel...
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do i...
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I live...
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out...
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Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from recon...
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A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from th...
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you ...
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What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.
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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is ...
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....mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday ...
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But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window...
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing...
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine.
Pigs in Heaven
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I kne...
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to inv...
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick t...
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary no...
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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were mis...
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to unde...
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't hav...
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying...
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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