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Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.
Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, whereve...
Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.
My mother makes the best cider in Lincolnshire. She swears it is because she always includes a number of rotten apples in the mix. I was wondering if this could be true of people - if the world needs...
Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica.
Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!
[in the context of 1881] Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need- What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while.
I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.
More lady-lessons. It is impossible to do all and be all a lady must be and not tie oneself in a knot. A lady must walk erect with dignity, looking straight before her with eyelids low, gazing at the...
I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
I cannot be a monk, nor a crusader, nor a tumbler. I must stay here and hem sheets until I die. My humors are greatly out of balance. I prescribe for myself wormwood and spiced wine and some of the cu...
I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside dow...
I feel safer when you're here. You're so big and sturdy, like a beautiful tree I can lean on and not knock over.
I am commanded to write an account of my days: I am bit by fleas and plagued by family. That is all there is to say.
Fathers should make you feel safe.
Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.
Alyce, she breathed. Alyce sounded clean and smart. You could love someone maned Alyce. She looked back at the face in the water. This is me, Alyce. It was right. So the newly called Alyce shifted the...
19TH DAY OF OCTOBER, Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know
. . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.
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