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some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

There__ a loneliness that only exists in one__ mind. The loneliest moment in someone__ life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.

As children inch their way into adolescence, the parent changes. He is an authority, a source of answers, and a chastising voice. Depending on the day, he may be resented, emulated, questioned, or defied.Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls. Saleem had only bits and pieces of his father, mostly the memories of a young boy. He would spend the rest of his life, he knew, trying to reconstruct his father with the scraps he could recall or gather from his mother.

What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

Children are touched by heaven__heir every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children

Without them, one__ status as an adult is never secure; a childless adult creates adulthood for himself , and as exhilarating as it often is, it is also a state of perpetual insecurity

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

But war had a taming effect

he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong

Some would call that lucky but lucky is relative

To live for your dreams, you have to be fearless in life.

Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?

That__ what being a mother is, isn__ it? Waiting for a rounded belly to tighten in readiness; listening for the sound of hunger in the moonlit hours; hearing an eager voice call even in the camouflage of traffic, loud music, and whirring machines. It__ looking at every door, every phone, and every approaching silhouette and feeling that slight lift, that tickle of opportunity to be again__other.

As you focus on the greatness of God, the difficulties of life will dissolve.

o_cean (__SH_n) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]

Abignades or abegnadesA term used in te department of the Landes for the intestines of a goose cooked in its blood. Abegnades are found almost solely in the chalosse region, where they are eaten on bread fried in goose fat, with slices of lemon.