Bill Clegg Quotes

#1. If you want to lose sleep at night and eliminate all your free time or freedom, by all means open a small business, especially one that serves food.

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#2. [A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.

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#3. I've never been one to go to church, but I've al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.

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#4. The world's magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned.

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#5. [W]e've learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.

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#6. OK, I say again, not really understanding what it is I am agreeing to, what it is precisely I am accepting. But I am accepting something. The truth of my circumstances? The reality I have until now avoided? It's much worse than I imagined and also somehow better.

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#7. And it might be you never know the part you played, what it meant to someone to watch you make your way each day.

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#8. There are no words precise enough to describe how wide and empty the world is when you lose someone that matters to you as much as Penny did to me.

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#9. And if the only thing you can do is show up, do it. Then do it again. And when it's the last thing you want to do and the last place you want to go, go. Just go. You have no idea who you might be helping just by sitting there or who might help you.

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#10. Wounds can sing a beguiling song.

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#11. This is a half-life, a split purgatory where her body and mind coexist but occupy separate realities.

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#12. All we can do is play our parts and keep each other company.

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#13. Judgement is often no more than a confession of ignorance.

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#14. For a while the world will appear more as it is and less as I make it, and I will have a new courage to face the remaining wreckage of the past.

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#15. I never felt so small, so humbled, by the vastness of the universe and the fragility of life.

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#16. And the stories will change and the canoe will become a headboard and the family will be mermaids and the rooms will be mansions. And no one will remember us, who we were or what happened here.

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#17. Who had been fighting with someone they loved?
Going at it long enough to unleash the irretrievable words they knew to say only because they had been trusted to know what would hurt the most.

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#18. I knew I didn't want to be alone anymore.

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#19. Some people, she decided, magically surface in these horrible moments knowing exactly what to do, which spaces to fill.

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#20. Why is it only later that things begin to make sense?

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