Brian Andreas Quotes
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The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it
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I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.
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You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.
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My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.
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Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.
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The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same
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There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.
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You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?
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I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
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Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.
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I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.
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I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.
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There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.
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He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
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I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
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The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke.
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There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
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I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet.
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In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.
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There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.
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These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it's not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.
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If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'
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Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.
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There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.
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If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.
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Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.
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Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right
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I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.
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In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.
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You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.
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