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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.


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Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.



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hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.



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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.



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And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.



A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.



Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.



But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.



The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.



I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.



Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.





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