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“Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Mom would often talk about a refugee boy she’d met in a hospital in Afghanistan. He was the victim of a land mine and had lost a leg. She said to him that she brought greetings to him from schoolchildren in New York. “Tell them not to worry about me,” this little boy told her from his hospital bed. “I still have one leg.”
― The End of Your Life Book Club
― The End of Your Life Book Club
“Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?”
― The End of Your Life Book Club
― The End of Your Life Book Club
“No one in the family has ever really gotten over Bob’s death. We talk of him daily, recounting stories and imagining what his reactions would be to new books and recent events. He remains for my family the perfect model of how you can be gone but ever present in the lives of people who loved you, in the same way that your favorite books stay with you for your entire life, no matter how long it’s been since you turned the last page.”
― The End of Your Life Book Club
― The End of Your Life Book Club
“It’s great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
― Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
― Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
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