"Once upon a time, a girl prayed for true love. Her prayer was answered. She learned to love herself. #30"
"And what does it feel like?" we asked. "Well," she said, leaning over to us like a secret, "it feels like a gust of wind blowing inside your heart. It feels like bright yellow paint #81."
"That's when the rain came down and we ran - laughing hard, sides hurting - and there was no shelter for miles. So we just sat down in the sand and watched the ocean swallow the sky #122."
"We all have needs and desires," Juanita said to Anna as they painted their houses purple. "In that case," Anna said, "can we paint the trim lime-green with pink flowers along the edges?" "Just what I was thinking," she said #135."
"They are inseparable. Yesterday, the three of them decided to have a hot peppermint tea party in the middle of the lake while sitting in a canoe and worried that their lives were becoming predictable #141."
"Once a day she tells the spin to sit still, the twirl to behave, the laugh to whisper, the dream to sleep. And for a moment she was untwirled, whispered and dreamless... #333"
"There's a place inside her heart she reserves for him. It has good eastern light, sea breeze and if you stand on your toes, you can see a thousand miles away #67."
"Everything melted, rained, unraveled, became, grew wings, attempted flight, flopped, tried again, succeeded. Just another day #317."
"Once you get over the fear, then it's a cinch," she said. And then she leaped into a mountainous and unexplored region of her heart #115."
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