Betsy Cornwell Quotes

#1. When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules

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#2. I had no idea how one day could contain so much happiness and despair at once.

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#3. It's the colors that will make you stray. They sing to you, the not-blue and the searing light, and no matter how tightly you tie yourself to the inbetween, eventually you will break free.
No one swims only in the shallow water.

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#4. Once you love someone, part of you is bound forever. Perhaps you never see him again - perhaps your life is better without him, and it's right to be apart. But once you've loved him, the link is formed. You can ignore it, if you choose, but you cannot sever it.

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#5. It was always the secrets that hurt us, wasn't it? Not the telling of them.

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#6. Shared, the pain was double, but only half so crippling. She couldn't bring herself to wish for the strenght to stand alone.

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#7. Those of us who embrace the feminine know its strength.

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#8. Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.

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#9. Now was a time not to anger, but for survival. I would survive. I knew that was all I could do.

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#10. A whole life could change, and change again, in the smallest fraction of forever.

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#11. Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said "Thou shalt not," now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, "You will.

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#12. Children's and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that's why so many adults read YA: we're never done coming of age.

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#13. But unlike sirens, selkies don't mean any harm with their songs. They don't sing to seduce or to kill. Their songs have nothing to do with anyone but themselves. They sing for the simple joy of it, and because of that, I imagine their songs are more beautiful than those of any siren.

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#14. I have to believe it's right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.

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#15. Their heartbeats rushed through his body. His arms circled around her, just so he could keep himself from falling.

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#16. You had to be willing to forget what it had done before and look for what it could do.

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#17. One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

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#18. I do the same with my books ... Nothing like a good argument in the margins with someone who's already said all they have to say on the subject.

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#19. My motrher says friendship should be slowly and carefully cultivated, like a rose garden, like a romance in a story. That every reason you care about someone should be rational.
She says I care too quickly.
But friendship has never been somenting I could do halfway

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