It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.

Heidi W. Durrow

Tags: sadness smile anger



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If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

Heidi W. Durrow

Tags: life



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I think of how Grandma makes fun of love. And maybe that’s the key.

Heidi W. Durrow


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The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.

Heidi W. Durrow


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A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

Heidi W. Durrow

Tags: life women soul culture



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Seeing Grandma this way, it makes me know for certain that everything about a person will show up in another person in the family.

Heidi W. Durrow


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We live in the same house but we both feel lonely. We and lonely don't belong in the same sentence.

Heidi W. Durrow


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I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

Heidi W. Durrow


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I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.

Heidi W. Durrow


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Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday hats, but something that comes to you as if you were born to the king and queen. Aunt Loretta understands better than Grandma that reading a big book is more classy than wearing fake pearls watching TV.

Heidi W. Durrow

Tags: class smarts



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