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Category: Ron Rash

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)

bad-times, comfort, food, good-times

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface…

Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better

feelings, humans, love, vulnerable

It’s a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start

baby, life, tears

Having shot down a number, some of which were anly wounded, the whole flock swept repeatedly around their prostrate companions, and again settled on a low tree, within twenty yards of the spot where I stood. At each successive discharge, though showers of them fell, yet the affection of the survivors seemed rather to increase; for after a few circuits around the place, they again alighted near me.

animals, parakeets

She walks in beauty.

A small profit it better than a big loss

business, choices, life, loss, profit

Don’t love anything that can be taken away.

She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)

food, interraction, loneliness, speach, starvation, words

We want what’s in this world but we also want what ain’t.

belief, impossible-things, life, possible, the-world

Nothing is but what is now

future, life-and-living, past, present-moment