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01c. 1972 AD

I wish the night would end,I wish the day'd begin,I wish it would rain or snow,or the wind would blow,or the grass would grow,I wish I had yesterday,I wish there were games to play...

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02c. 1972 AD

Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

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03c. 1972 AD

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

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04c. 1972 AD

People make the rules of society, not God.

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05c. 1972 AD

He won't listen to the music, and I can't turn it off.

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06c. 1972 AD

I love you,” was his reply. “I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.

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07c. 1972 AD

Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself!

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08c. 1972 AD

Though I'm not sure, I thought I saw women dressed in black, with her head and face covered by a black veil, duck behind a tree as we approached the road and parked car. Hiding so we wouldn't see her. But I caught a glimpse, enough to reveal the rope of lustrous pearls she wore. Pearls that were there for a thin white hand to lift and nervously, out of long habit, twist and untwist into a knot. Only one women I knew did that--and she was the perfect one to wear black, and should run to hide!Forever hide! Color all her days black! Every last one!

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09c. 1972 AD

We will not open healed wounds!""My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done!

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10c. 1972 AD

I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.

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11c. 1972 AD

Little girls get hurt when they play grown-up games.

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12c. 1972 AD

Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.

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13c. 1972 AD

And when I fall in love,” I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.

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14c. 1972 AD

Candy. He spoke of candy. Was he still in the child's world where candy stood for something sweet enough to hold back tears? I had grown older, and had lost enthusiasm for childish delights. I wanted what every teenager wants -- freedom to develop into a woman, freedom to have full control over my life! Though I tried to tell him this, my voice had dried up along with my tears.

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15c. 1972 AD

Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

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16c. 1972 AD

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

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17c. 1972 AD

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

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18c. 1972 AD

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!

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19c. 1972 AD

Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

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20c. 1972 AD

Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven'tremained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.

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21c. 1972 AD

And why is it all men thinkeverything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain sillydrivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of findingthe perfect love?

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22c. 1972 AD

God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players downhere.We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written herscript, too.And a sorry one it was.

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23c. 1972 AD

What's doneis done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we'rewasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everythingahead, waiting for us."Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough toforget thoughts of revenge.

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24c. 1972 AD

We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.

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