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He gripped my hand tightly and emphasized each word. “Pastor,” he said, “You. Need. To shape. Up.” “Oh?” This is my go-to response when a person says something strange or out of character. I’ve found that a simple “Oh?” invites them to
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“He spoke to me with the quality one often encounters in truly wise people—forgiveness. He assured me that people do stupid things, say stupid things, but it doesn’t need to be their intrinsic nature.”
― Spare
― Spare
“He didn’t seem sad, just ready. You have to know when it’s time to go, Harry.”
― Spare
― Spare
“Even for an occasional practitioner of magical thinking like me, however, some realities just can’t be changed.”
― Spare
― Spare
“I told them that I failed to see how speaking to Oprah was any different from what my family and their staff had done for decades – briefing the press on the sly, planting stories. And what about the endless books on which they’d co-operated, starting with Pa’s 1994 crypto-autobiography with Jonathan Dimbleby? Or Camilla’s collaborations with the editor Geordie Greig? The only difference was that Meg and I were upfront about it. We chose an interviewer who was above reproach, and we didn’t once hide behind phrases like “Palace sources”, we let people see the words coming out of our mouths.”
― Spare
― Spare
“The Heir and the Spare—there was no judgment about it, but also no ambiguity. I was the shadow, the support, the Plan B. I was brought into the world in case something happened to Willy. I was summoned to provide backup, distraction, diversion and, if necessary, a spare part. Kidney, perhaps. Blood transfusion. Speck of bone marrow. This was all made explicitly clear to me from the start of life’s journey and regularly reinforced thereafter.”
― Spare
― Spare
Laurel’s 2025 Year in Books
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