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A review by joyejenkins
Sweet Water by Christina Baker Kline
2.0
Quotes:
"I should have known that death doesn’t end anything, no, not even when you want it to. And memory is funny; it doesn’t do what you tell it."
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"If you can take what you are, what you know, and use it to express what you feel, not what you think—and not in some obvious way, but in a way that’s yours alone—then you have something. Something real.”
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"There’s a way people have of living with lies when the truth is too painful to confront."
"Working with clay, I decided, was like being in a relationship: as you move with and against it, as it moves with and against you, you put part of yourself into it and it takes on part of you and supports you. That’s why you have to work quickly; you need to do it, as my teacher said, without thinking too much."
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"Bravery is something else entirely: a hardening, a defense. It has little to do with choice, with hope. It has little to do with desire."
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"I should have known that death doesn’t end anything, no, not even when you want it to. And memory is funny; it doesn’t do what you tell it."
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"If you can take what you are, what you know, and use it to express what you feel, not what you think—and not in some obvious way, but in a way that’s yours alone—then you have something. Something real.”
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"There’s a way people have of living with lies when the truth is too painful to confront."
"Working with clay, I decided, was like being in a relationship: as you move with and against it, as it moves with and against you, you put part of yourself into it and it takes on part of you and supports you. That’s why you have to work quickly; you need to do it, as my teacher said, without thinking too much."
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"Bravery is something else entirely: a hardening, a defense. It has little to do with choice, with hope. It has little to do with desire."
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