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41 " Sunset is the saddest light there is. "
― Sue Monk Kidd , The Secret Life of Bees
42 " This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me. "
43 " Whenever I opened one, T. Ray said, “Who do you think you are, Julius Shakespeare?” The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare’s first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival. "
44 " I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite. "
45 " Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is. "
46 " There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful. "
47 " You gotta imagine what's never been. "
48 " The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters. "
49 " It's your time to live, don't mess it up. "
50 " In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional...What a special case I was. "
51 " The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't. "
52 " You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. "
53 " You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course. "
54 " Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long. "
55 " It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart. "
56 " You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside "
57 " We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think. "
58 " I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it? "
59 " I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home. "
60 " You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair... "