But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for … - Ann Aguirre

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I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

Ann Aguirre

But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.

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He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

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There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

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I never belonged anywhere until I met you.

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He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

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Have you ever watched a child learning to walk? Before this week, I never had, but there's a certain grace to it. Well, if not grace, then tenacity. Fall down nine times--get up ten. And the tenth time you get where you're going, you don't stop, not for obstacles, not for other people telling you to stop. You don't listen to anything but that inner voice until you arrive where you want to be.

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