Listen. To Live Is To Be Marked. To Live Is To Change, To Acquire The Words Of A Story, And That Is The
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only ever found sorrow.
'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver
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‘The Year the Maps Changed’ by me, Danielle Binks! Coming out in 2020 with Lothian Children’s Books! https://www.hachette.com.au/danielle-binks/the-year-the-maps-changed
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First pages back for the forthcoming YA novel ...
He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the déjà vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow or wanting back something you should never have given away.
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Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.
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"Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth."
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