“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.”
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
