"It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride."
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"Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time."
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"Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure."
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"Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass."
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"I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise."
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"I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl."
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"How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be."
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"A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic."
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"I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind."
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"I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch."
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"I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives."
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"Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible."
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"You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?"
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"These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out."
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"the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine."
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"When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else."
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"I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for."
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"At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it."
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"But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs."
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"What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale."
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