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When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

Mary E. Pearson

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Mary E. Pearson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 14
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Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.
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What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.
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I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)
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Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?
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One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.
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When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.
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It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.
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He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules he understood. But there are new rules now, ones he doesn't know yet. He'll learn. Just as I'm learning.
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My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.
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Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.
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Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.
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Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.
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I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.
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Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.
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I used to be someone.
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Which weakness shall I tell her? “I walk funny,” I say, and she’s satisfied with that. (inside joke)
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it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets
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It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.
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It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
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