Heather Gudenkauf Quotes

#1. Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.

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#2. We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.

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#3. I realize then, what my mother already knows - has known for a long time. Motherhood is a procession of goodbyes. Some bittersweet and filled with promise and hope, some gradual, a gentle prying away of your fingers from something precious, some more violent, unexpected.

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#4. You don't ever want to corner something meaner than you.

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#5. The worst kind of hurt was the kind that wasn't there yet, but you knew was slowly creeping toward you.

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#6. Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.

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#7. You were a wish that we made every morning when we woke up and a prayer we said before we went to bed each night,

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#8. The easiest way to save face, is to keep the lower half shut.

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#9. That's the wonderful thing about the human heart, there's room enough for all kinds of love.

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#10. People say that being a mother is the most important job you will ever have. And it is very important. But it is even more important, I believe, to be a wife, a good wife.

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#11. You have to look for the little mercies, the small kindnesses and good that come from the terrible.

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#12. Every five-year-old kid should have a pair of happy pajamas. (217)

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#13. But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't

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#14. always asks how her nursing classes

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