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We replanted. The loss was substantial, but it was overshadowed completely by losing you.
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Do you really think you're the only human being alive who is unforgivably flawed? Who's been hurt almost to the point of breaking?
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Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing.
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Moss has no roots.
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I felt my true, unworthy self to be far away from his clutching grasp, hidden from his admiring gaze.
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The relentlessness with which these women tried to repair their relationships was foreign to me; I didn't understand why they didn't simply give up.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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Anyone can grow into something beautiful.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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I still look up sometimes when I cross the front of the house, expecting to see her.
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This is it, you know," she said. "Your life starts here. No one to blame but yourself from here on out.
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Moss grows without roots.
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Over time, we would learn each other and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.
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In that moment, we were the same, each of us destroyed by our limited understanding of reality.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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I'm more of a thistle-peony-basil kind of girl.
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Some believe lily of the valley brings a return of happiness.
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kissed his forehead.
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I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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For eight years I dreamed of fire. Trees ignited as I passed them; oceans burned.
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The birds had been given everything they needed. A home in the thin, pure air: a moment of weightlessness, a reprieve from the gravity of life
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The open forgiveness in her eyes, the uncensored love, terrified me.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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The language of flowers is nonnegotiable, Victoria, Elizabeth said,
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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Common thistle is everywhere," she said. "Which is perhaps why human beings are so relentlessly unkind to one another.
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Here you are, obsessed with romantic language-a language invented for expression between lovers-and you use it to spread animosity.
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I had been loyal to nothing except the language of flowers. If I started lying about it, there would be nothing in my life that was beautiful or true.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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Hyacinth. Please forgive me.
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I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn't who you are.
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I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
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Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.
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Mistletoe. I surmount all obstacles.
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I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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The origin of our identity is love.
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I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
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Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.
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Meredith Combs, the social worker responsible for selecting the stream of adoptive families that gave me back, wanted to talk to me about blame.
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Coming up with the right questions was even more important than coming up with the right answers.
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Purple irises from a bucket on Market Street. The
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