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1 " There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. "
― Madeleine L'Engle , The Moon by Night (Austin Family Chronicles, #2)
2 " The minute anybody starts telling you what God thinks, or exactly why he does such and such, beware. "
3 " You know those puzzles with hundreds of tiny pieces? You take one of those pieces all by itself and it doesn’t make sense, does it? You look at one piece and it doesn’t seem to be part of a picture. But you put all the pieces together and you see the meaning of it all. Well, what I, in my heathenish way, Vicky, feel about life, and unfairness, is that we find it hard to realize that there is a completed puzzle. We jump to conclusions and decide that the one little piece we have in our hand is all there is and that it doesn’t make sense. "
4 " All I knew was that at almost fifteen it’s very difficult to be satisfied with the age you are, because you aren’t really any age. "
5 " The rain is raining all around,” Uncle Douglas quoted, “It rains on both the just and the unjust fellow. But more, it seems on the just than on the unjust, For the unjust hath the just’s umbrella. "
6 " Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything? "
