Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

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Mots clés family



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As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.

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And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

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Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

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Mots clés humanity war horror terror war-on-terror desensitized



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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

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Mots clés life optimism



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It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

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Mots clés life story move-on



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Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

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Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

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His eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife.

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