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You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.
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It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.
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I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.
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That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.
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I know all too well how it is when the beautiful visions you've been fed don't match up with reality.
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She pauses, hand on her hip. "Yes,
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This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting.
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Easier to assume that people have it out for you than to be disappointed when they don't come through.
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You can't find peace until you find all the pieces. She wants to help Vivian find some kind of peace, elusive and fleeting as it may be.
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I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.
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It?" "Friday, April fourth, ma'am." She coughs. Then she doubles over and coughs
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The people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments.
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I think you're used to being observed but not really ... seen.
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As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.
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That the quickest relief will come in forgetting.
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Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years.
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The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.
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Forgive me if I'm wrong. But are you-were you-did you come here on a train from New York about ten years ago?
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My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
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I feel a joy so strong it's almost painful - a knife's edge of joy.
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It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.
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out and folding it against
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The reading part of her feels private, between her and the characters in a book.
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As a week. She's been spanked with a spatula, slapped across
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You are only as interesting as you are useful to someone
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I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live
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A man whose mother won't let him lift a finger is ruined for a wife." The
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It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.
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I want to say, Christina, that you are ... unusual. And somehow..." her voice trails off. "Your mind-- your curiosity-- will be your comfort.
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The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact
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It is a terrible thing to find the love of your life.... You know too well what you're missing when it's gone.
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Irish lace, hanging in the windows, filters the afternoon light, softening the lines on her face.
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mixed together - because Dina refuses to acknowledge
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And anyway, how do you talk about losing everything?
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How strange, I think - that I am in a place my parents have never been and will never see. How strange that I am here and they are gone.
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Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you could never have a normal life, even if that's what you thought you wanted. You and me, we're not 'normal.
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notice." The false cheer in her voice is evidence of how
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If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.
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I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.
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The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days.
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My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.
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For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.
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Ever since I was a little girl I had wanted to be
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I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.
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Upright and do right makes all right.
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Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.
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It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.
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Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.
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It is good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.
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A lady wants to feel pretty, no matter how much money she has.
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I have found that the biggest moments in life, the ones that change everything, usually catch you by surprise.
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I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
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If you're disorganized, you risk losing everything.
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When I was seventeen I went to college to escape my father's impotent rage and my mother's infinite capacity for forgiveness.
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Be totaled; we can't afford a new one.
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Pusillanimous. Talisman.
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She knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor.
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To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.
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(How quickly, with a slight twist in perception, do people's strengths become flaws!)
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Tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable ...
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I like meeting and connecting with readers.
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You can't find peace until you fin fall the pieces.
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We are headed toward the unknown, and we have no choice but to sit quietly in our hard seats and let ourselves be taken there.
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What she wants most - what she truly yearns for - is what any of us want: to be seen.
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Know what a symbol is? ... Shit that stands for shit.
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My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.
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Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.
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Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
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Only the good Lord knows what's going to happen, and He ain't telling.
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I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.
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Every decision I make is determined solely by the spark and limitations of my own perspective
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I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display
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Story. (And anyway, Lori doesn't ask "why" questions. She's only
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What I couldn't see is that sometimes the healing is not in the forgetting but in the letting go.
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My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me.
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I read once that the act of observing changes the nature of what is observed.
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So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?
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My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.
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We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?
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Servants, men in top hats and morning coats, shop girls in
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He squints at me. "Except for the red hair and freckles, you look okay. You'll be fine and dandy sitting at the table with a napkin on your lap.
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It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.
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This isn't bickering. This is classic mother-daughter communications. I've been reading up on it.
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neighborhood, the place I left each
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She feels like a circus clown who wakes up one morning and no longer wants to glue on the red rubber nose.
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Test your limits. Learn what you can endure.
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This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.
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I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.
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You're not shy. You just like who you like.
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Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
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Upright and do right make all right.
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It's a bitter nostalgia from a moment not yet passed.
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And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.
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Life's small details are the ones that interest me, anyway. The big questions are too hard to parse.
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I am not glad she is dead, but I am not sorry she is gone.
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Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.
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I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.
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I can't imagine why you didn't memorize this route on the
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You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.
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