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“Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping."
"That's too easy," he said.
"On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.”
― With No One as Witness
"That's too easy," he said.
"On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.”
― With No One as Witness
“He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.”
― Cocaine Blues
― Cocaine Blues
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
― Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
― Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."
("The Castle")”
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("The Castle")”
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“Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you--as you are right now and as you ever will be--are fully enough for this moment . . . ”
― With No One as Witness
― With No One as Witness
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