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“ You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small.Then what? I ask.Well, then you'll have to find a larger shell to live in.I consider this for a moment. What if it's too small but you still want to live there?She sighs. Gracious, child, what a question. I suppose you'll either have to be brave and find a new home or you'll have to live inside a broken shell. ”

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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...

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I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

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Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ...Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and by the end of the song most of us are crying. I am too, though I still don't know what those stars are meant to represent. My mistake, I suppose, is in thinking they should mean something.

~ Christina Baker Kline

Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.

~ Christina Baker Kline