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He stood there, his eyes like they had been before. Their beauty stabbed at her heart like a great knife; the hair looked so like she had just pressed the wet comb to it and perhaps put a little pomade on the sides; and the small face was clean and sad. Yet her arms somehow did not ache to hold him like her heart told her they should. Something too far away and too strong was between her and him; she only saw him as she had always seen resurrection pictures, hidden from us as in a wonderful mist that will not let us see our love complete.


James Purdy


#mothers-love #beauty

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.


Michael Servetus


#dissent #error #i #must #neither

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.


Stephen Richards


#forgiveness #forgiveness-chance-love-equality #forgiving #forgiving-others #forgiving-yourself

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.


Paul Twitchell


#climbs #consciousness #freedom #give #grant

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.


Erma Bombeck


#because #bed #blanket #children #crooked

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.


Adrienne Rich


#feuds #hate #love #mother #mothers-and-daughters

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.


Amy Tan


#concepts #daughters #family #fear #heritage

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.


Oscar Wilde


#brothers #death #friendship #death

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


Heather Gudenkauf


#mothers-and-daughters #family

Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine. You need a desk. I've often noticed how much you like to write. The way you eat up those advertising tablets from the store! I never saw anything like it. I can't understand it though. I never write anything but checks myself. " "Bob!" said Mrs. Ray. "You wrote the most wonderful letters to me before we were married. I still have them, a big bundle of them. Every time I clean house I read them over and cry." "Cry, eh?" said Mr. Ray, grinning. "In spite of what your mother says, Betsy, if you have any talent for writing, it comes from family. Her brother Keith was mighty talented, and maybe you are too. Maybe you're going to be a writer." Betsy was silent, agreeably abashed. "But if you're going to be a writer," he went on, "you've got to read. Good books. Great books. The classics.


Maud Hart Lovelace


#classics #encouragment #fathers #great-books #mothers