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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“These delightful stories do that essential-but-rare story thing: they surprise. They skip past the quotidian, the merely real, to the essential, and do so with a spirit of tenderness and wonder that is wholly unique. They are (let me coin a phrase
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Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.
Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these thing…
What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.
Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is not the thing you thought it would be. Poor people who win the lottery do not become rich people. They become poor people who won the lottery.