You say that father write a lot of books, but what he write I don't understand. He was reading to you all the evening, but could you really make out what he meant? What nice stores, mother, you can tell us! Why can't father write like that, I wonder? Did he never hear from his own mother stories of giants and fairies and princesses? Has he forgotten them all? Often when he gets late for his bath you have to and call him an hundred times. You wait and keep his ...

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When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest. When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, ...

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"Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need." - Margaret Mead "Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." - Emily Kimbrough "If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?  And why are you waiting?" - Stephen Levine ...

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