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Tante Isabelle says it's better to be bold than meek. She says if you jump off a cliff at least you'll fly before you fall.

Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment."
Student: "Prone.

She gave herself over to the sensations of the kiss, let it become the whole of her universe, and knew finally how it felt to be enough for someone.

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

they'd learn what needed to be held close in life, and what wasn't worth worrying over.

She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other.

You don't reason with men like Hitler.

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

Why was it so easy for men in the world to do as they wanted and so difficult for women?

She is angry. And angry people make mistakes in war and die.

When you get ... to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.

Quit pouting, girl. All a Milquetoast ever gets is wet.

But that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.

hugged him tightly and then

Will." "I just want to keep you safe." I smile. Americans can be

She had fallen into the fathomless gray that warped a mind and made a mother keep holding on long after hope was gone.

singing along with the radio. It was blasting a song by the Butthole Surfers.

She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks

Drama, she'd learned, was like good punctuation: it underscored your point.

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

One of the drawbacks of sleeping with whores, he thought lazily. You got what you paid for, and not a goddamn thing more.

Teach the boys how to be gentlemen and Marah how to be strong.

I'm afraid, I say, surprising myself with the admission. I can't remember admitting such a thing in years, although it has often been true. Four

You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet.

The next morning, Angie woke with the sun ... Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.
Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.

Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can.

Stop thinking about what you've lost, and think about what you have left.

I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.

I feel like Dorothy, back in Kansas, a black-and-white girl in a black-and-white world, with memories in color.

Love shows us who we want to be. War shows us who we are.

What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

Johnny looked at her. "I think we can't make people love us."
"Including our parents?"
Especially our parents.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

Some things end.
Love shouldn't be one of those things.

But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.

A German walked up to her, his rifle

Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.

Abuse can make an animal mean.

It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

The failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach.

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.

If love is a disease, I suppose I'm infected.

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

But how did you do that? How did two people move backward through time and untie a knot that had tangled through every moment of their lives?

She wanted to say "Don't leave me," but she couldn't do it, not again. She was so tired of begging people to love her. Besides,

through hell, keep going. - WINSTON CHURCHILL

Dreams. They were such precious commodities, and she'd given so many of hers away without a fight. Never again.

Know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts.

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.

It wouldn't hurt you to be afraid, you know.

Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?"
Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.

I kept an image of you in my mind through all of it.

Vietnam ... war ... it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

Magic to be its best must be unexpected".

It's funny how things slip away, pieces of us, even.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

I would not love him again. Not if I had known how it would feel to live with a broken heart.

He had abandoned her after all; it filled her with the kind of bone-deep disappointment she knew so well.

Women were integral to the Resistance. Why couldn't men see that?

loneliness is the worst kind of poverty,

It was the very bleakness of winter that made spring possible.

Show us your true colors, who you used to be.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

It's not forgetting we need, Vianne," he said, leaning down to kiss her. "It's remembering.

What mattered was not caring. And the best way not to care was to surround yourself with noise and people.

She was so unlike the other women he'd slept with. Course, they were whores, mostly ...

The measure of a society is its compassion.

This is no place for anyone," Vianne

what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God?

Isabelle sipped the brandy. Experience had taught

Someone told her she couldn't do something; she did it. Every barrier she turned into a gate.

them, she didn't want to know. As they neared Le Jardin, Vianne struggled to push the heavy wheelbarrow

Night rather than to gobble it all up at once. And

Perhaps I am as mad and impetuous as they say.

Far below, a deep blue lake absorbed the reflection of the clouds. Manicured gardens allowed the villa's occupants - and, more important,

Even more important than what she gave her garden was what it gave her. In it, she found a sense of calm.

protected her as best we could. She refused to

She learned then that some relationships ended without fireworks or tears or regret. They ended in silence. It

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

She wanted to daydream, pretend that her world was upright instead of fallen on its side;

It embarrassed Isabelle that he felt the need to say this to her, and in front of everyone.

I thought change started from within."
"Sometimes. Sometimes it's forced upon you.

Conlan: "She's not Sophia."
Angie: "She's somebody's Sophia.

Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.

daughter had had a way of saying things that rubbed Nora the wrong way. More often than not, they both ended up saying something they regretted.

It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.

Kept stepping into the same mud puddle and expecting it to be dry.

She knew, too, that love didn't evaporate. It faded, perhaps, lost its weight like bones left out in the sun, but it didn't go away.

She wouldn't have understood how dark a side love could have, how hiding it was the kindest thing you could do sometimes.

She felt the end of the kiss as deeply as she'd felt the start of it.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life.