Tiffany Baker Quotes

#1. To be a mother, after all, was to know the most perfect fullness on earth followed by the most terrible emptiness.

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#2. Well, the way I see it, honey, love's love, whatever shape it comes in.

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#3. Maybe the heavens were a kind of celestial grave, I thought, the way the earth is a repository for our flesh, and when we stared at the stars, we were really beholding a million lives twinkling back at us, asking us not to forget.

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#4. At night, the valleys of my body curve around him, creating a geography I never knew existed before, where size is relative and more is always better, and I can't seem to get enough of it.

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#5. If there was one thing Brenda Dyerson was good at, she knew it, was cooking up the scraps destiny had laid out on its plates for her.

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#6. Amelia and I were at the age where wonderful things sometimes still did happen, but far less often than they used to.

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#7. She did it without thinking--At that moment she was pure Gilly again: red-haired, with fury for blood, perfect aim, and nothing to lose.

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#8. Jo shook her head. She wished she had an answer for Claire, but as far as she knew, love would leave its mark. Sometimes it even took the skin right off you.

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#9. Who says all the lines of love are supposed to match up? I'd never thought about it that way before - that maybe your perfect other wasn't everything you already were, but everything you were never going to be.

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#10. So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and perhaps the most dangerous kind. For in letting ourselves forget about the common threads of our innermost wishes, we erode our foundations and lose the keystone of our souls.

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#11. How do you tell the difference between carelessness and passion?" Claire asked as they paced back along the edge of the marsh. "Is there one? I meane, really, is there any way to love a person without the hell beat out of you for it?

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#12. Maybe it was just the perfect realization to all ones' dreams ... where a magic elixir could heal you and make you strong, where men could make roses bloom with the single touch of a thumb, and where the bigger women were, so much the better.

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#13. A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death

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#14. Tabitha's quilt was more than pieces of fabric sewn together. It was a patchwork of souls.

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#15. Goddamn it, Joanna!' Claire called. After twelve years her voice was sharper than Jo remembered. 'I know you're standing on the stairs,' she said. 'I can see you. Get down here and help me!

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#16. But you can't worry about what life's going to spit in your direction.

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#17. Death almost always rearranges life, sometimes for the worse, many times for the better,

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#18. And one day, you, too, might grow up to be enchanting.

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#19. The instant of a great disaster, it is often said, is an elongated one. As if in witnessing its own demise the human mind is want to wind the moment out long and long still.

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#20. She never understood that love
especially that of a child
was the most necessary weight you can endure in life, even if it hurts, even if it tugs bags under the skin of your eyes. Without it, the soul skitters to the edge of the world and teeters there, confused.

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#21. If she knew anything, Claire thought, it was simply that though our time on earth was short, our lives were long. They seeped and spread, watery and wide, moving in unexpected directions.

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#22. I was sixteen and just waking up to the peculiar rules of love - how what's left unsaid between two people can be a far more complicated language than what's written on the page.

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#23. What I really wanted to do was linger in the tidy lines that Marcus had scored into the earth. I wanted to sit in the exact center of the spiral and wait for the plants to unfurl themselves. I wanted them to climb and rove over my limbs until I burst into bloom with them.

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#24. Even back then, I guess, I suspected that sometimes the only available choice in life is to spit on death and run.

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#25. Isn't that part of love, I wanted to ask, carrying someone else's ghosts for them?

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#26. There was no etiquette guide in the universe that told you how to handle waking up in a house you'd fled from as a teenager with your estranged sister in one room accross the hall and your husband's pregnant teenage mistress in the other.

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#27. But life doesn't give us the option to remake our decisions, only the power to reconceive them

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#28. Whatever you ever saw in that mirror left it long ago and became part of you. No one can steal that.

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#29. Everyone had moments that acted like a prism, Claire believed, breaking up visible matter so you could see elementally what was in front of your eyes.

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#30. Sometimes it's possible to see misfortune coming and prepare for it, I guess, but most of the time, when a person disappears, it's as unexpected and shocking as hail in the middle of June.

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#31. On the face of things, we were hopelessly mismatched, but somehow we fit together perfectly.

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#32. Sometimes I think I collect souls to make up for the ones I've lost over the course of my life.

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#33. We see what we want to see in life, regardless of whether it's really in front of us or not ...

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#34. Make sure you don't lose your heart living with Robert Morgan. Make sure he doesn't use up all the very best parts of you.

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#35. The body is just the body. It has it's own structures, it's own laws. It's a thing unto itself. When it breaks down, that's it.

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#36. She was as necessary as the sun to me

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#37. Do you want to know the difference between a good story and the truth? ... The little bits, Robert Morgan.That's all. If you get those right, you can get away with murder.

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