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Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer Quotes: How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
         

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.


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I lost a child, " she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

I lost a child, " she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.



Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.



Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.





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