Quotes About Community

Jonas reached the opposite side of the river, stopped briefly, and looked back. The community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke only of happy things.

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joined those who took the pills.

It was against the rules for children or adults to look at another's nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old. Jonas

But here in Village, marks and failings were not considered flaws at all. They were valued.

Everything that you're a part of. Your own story fills you.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there....

And that was just how it worked, wasn't it? Happiness handed around and around, never stopping. It wasn't something one could hoard tight like a miser. That would be like trying to hold one's breath for later.

Lately, I have come to believe that the principal difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

I will tell you, parenting is a team sport. You need backup, reserves.

People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

The president of the League of Women Voters and the Chairwoman of the Sully Township Concerned Citizens' Committee were rumored to be close to trial by combat in city council meetings.

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The only thing worse than being widowed is being widowed and single.

There should be a rule for grief groups: forty-watt bulbs only.

And for one precious moment out of time, Anna knew what it meant to belong

897Archer lifted his gaze heavenward as he tilted the dun-colored hat back on his head. I say my prayers, Archer sighed. I go to church when I can and I even take old women to the grocery store when they need me to. And this is the thanks I get.

At one time, Madison Street had been quietly residential, curving gently to a rural road below, but the city had reached out like a hungry blob of protoplasm and engulfed us.

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These people are no better or no worse than people anywhere, anything that you can do to help them, help them and you will be surprised to know how they will help you.

A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years. It didn't take long to come up with an answer. "That's easy. I belong to a book club.

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.