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  1. Eudora Welty _ The Optimist's Daughter

    Up home we loved a good storm coming, we'd fly outdoors and run up and down to meet it," her mother used to say. "We children would run as fast as we could go along the top of that mountain when the wind was blowing, holding our arms right open. The wilder it blew the better we liked it.
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  2. Eudora Welty _ The Optimist's Daughter

    For there is hate as well as love, she supposed, in the coming together and continuing of our lives.
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  3. Eudora Welty _ The Optimist's Daughter

    At the sting in her eyes, she remembered for him that there must be no tears in his.
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  4. Eudora Welty _ The Optimist's Daughter

    You know, sir, this operation is not, in any hands, a hundred percent predictable?""Well, I'm an optimist.""I didn't know there were any more such animals," said Dr. Courtland."Never think you've seen the last of anything,
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  5. Eudora Welty _ The Optimist's Daughter

    At their very feet had been the river. The boat came breasting out of the mist, and in they stepped. All new things in life were meant to come like that.
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  6. Eudora Welty _ The Optimist's Daughter

    For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.
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  7. Eudora Welty _ The Optimist's Daughter

    And perhaps it didn't matter to them, not always, what they read aloud; it was the breath of life flowing between them, and the words of the moment riding on it that held them in delight. Between some two people every word is beautiful, or might as well be beautiful.
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    Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?
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  9. Eudora Welty _ The Optimist's Daughter

    She was sent to sleep under a velvety cloak of words, richly patterned and stitched with gold, straight out of a fairy tale, while they went reading on into her dreams.
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  10. Eudora Welty _ The Optimist's Daughter

    The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.
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