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  1. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    When I was in my thirties I had these little square hips left over from being pregnant and I just hated it. I kept thinking, 'All those years before, I had a perfect glamour-girl body, and I didn't spend one minute appreciating it because I thought my nose had a bump in it.' And now that I'm old, my shoulder hurts and I don't sleep good and my knuckles swell up, and I think, 'All those years in my thirties and forties I had a body where everything worked perfect. And I didn't spend one minute appreciating it because I thought I had square hips.
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  2. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    She stops trying to talk for a while, since there is nothing to say about a lost child that can change one star in a father's lonely sky.
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  3. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    This marriage has failed to warm her.
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  4. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    Some people say religion is finding yourself, and some people say it's losing yourself in a crowd.
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  5. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    When you're given a brilliant child, you polish her and let her shine.
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  6. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
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  7. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    Something like that is as bad or as good as a telephone ringing in the night: either way, you're not as alone as you think.
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  8. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins."
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  9. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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  10. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
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  11. Barbara Kingsolver _ Pigs in Heaven

    But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
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