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Beth Kephart Biography

Beth Kephart is an American author of non-fiction, poetry and young adult fiction for adults and teens. Kephart has written and published over ten books and has received several grants and awards for her writing. She was a National Book Award Finalist for her book "A Slant of the Sun: One Child’s Courage." She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and son. She is a writing partner in the marketing communications firm, Fusion Communications, and occasionally teaches and lectures at the University of Pennsylvania.

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In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

Desire, Friendship, High, High School, Outweighed, School

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

Chance, Giving, Stories, Story, Turns

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

Body, Bones, Giving, Music, Song, Turning

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

Heart, Honor, Numbers, Takes, Top

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

Breathing, Hair, Living, Person, Steps, Words

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Drifts, Falling In Love, Falls, I Love You, Toward, Tree

Here’s another change I’ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It’s what you can’t see that you hope you will see, what hasn’t been that might be.

Dark, Dropping, Moon, See, Stars

Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative houses and parts of them always remain. Friendship asks the truth and wants the truth, hollows and fills, ages with us, and we through it. It cradles us like family. It is ecology and mystery and language - all three. Our grown-up friendships - especially the really meaningful ones- model for our children what we want them to have throughout their lives.

Children, Enclose, Friendship, Meaningful

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

Believe, Different, Differently, Friends, Knows

We grow too old to lose old friends.

Friends, Grow, Grows, Loses, Old, Old Friends

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

Apology, Change, Lasts, Mean, Moment

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

History, Hold, Place, Weight, Weights, Words

You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

Goes On, Know, Love, My Love For You, River, Rivers

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

Beach, Earth, Heart, Mother, Sand