"What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? Itâ€™s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed."

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Source : "New Life, No Instructions". Book by Gail Caldwell, wnpr.org. April 2014.

Gail Caldwell

#Grace Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Needs Quotes

“There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.”
“I havenâ€™t had everything from life. Iâ€™ve had too much.”
“My life mission is to spread peace to the world.”
“Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.”
“I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five.”
“There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.”
“If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The telephonefell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeatingsomething happened, something awfula sunday, dusky. If it had beenterminal, we could have cradled heras she grew smaller, wiped her mouth,said good-bye. But it was sudden,how overnight we could be orphaned& the world became a bell we'd crawl inside& the ringing all we'd eat.”
“To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.”

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