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But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.
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The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
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Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.
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Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her — the only memory I allowed myself to keep.
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The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.
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I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.
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Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.
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Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.
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But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.
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To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
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Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.
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Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.
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Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Karen White is an American author of more than twenty four novels.
Known for:
The House on Tradd Street
A Long Time Gone
The Time Between
Return to Tradd Street
The Beach Trees
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