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“And when she listened she realized that this was what made them different Because in her house there never was a plan No thought for the future Life just came at you like a gang of lads getting out of a van.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“Making a fresh start isn't just a matter of having a new address in a new town. It isn't a matter of having a new job or a new phone number or even a new name.A fresh start requires a cleaning of the slate and that means paying off all that you owe and collecting all that you are due.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“And that was the vow you realize Then there That long moment We're in it Two people that had ought to be dead and buried Now here you were in a room in a town together alive That's what the baby was telling you as she thumped around in your womb This is a miracle I will keep kicking until you get it.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“In the end, he told himself some days, there is only what is done and what is not done. That is a life, that is what remains behind... It did not matter what sort of men or women they had been in life... his inner self would be lost to time, as he himself would be lost.”
― Lampedusa
― Lampedusa
“He thought of Mrs Wilson, of her daily kindnesses, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she had said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life. Had it not been for her, his mother might very well have wound up in that place. In an earlier time, it could have been his own mother he was saving – if saving was what this could be called. And only God knew what would have happened to him, where he might have ended up.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
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