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I am sure that the writing is very good, but I just could not get drawn into this book and I did not finish it.
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She feels, too, unbelievably tired, stymied by gravity; so much of motherhood has, for her, been this particular feeling, abject disbelief that she’s not only expected but obligated to do one more thing.
“Eventually you will be all alone with doctors shrugging because they’ve run out of things to do, and the person you really are thumping frantically in your chest: the successes and catastrophes and affairs and hangovers and genuine loves and small betrayals and flashes of courage and the river of fear running beneath it all, and of course the vast stretches of wasted time that are part of even the most amazing life.”
― In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
― In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
“whatever your lies are, digging through them will eventually take you to the center of your inferno. There you’ll encounter three major aspects of your own psyche: the monster, the betrayer, and the betrayed.”
― The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
― The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
“Like every other mother in the history of time, I wondered if I would ever be able to love another child as much as I loved her.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“You will know yourself best at that moment; you will be at your most real, your most honest, your most uncalculated. If you could travel back in time to make use of such knowledge during your life, you would become exactly the person you’d always hoped to be—but none of us do that. We don’t get that knowledge until it’s too late because then it can’t be tainted by vanity or pride or desire.”
― In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
― In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
“I look at my girls, my brilliant young women. I want them to think I was better than I was, and I want to tell them the truth in case the truth will be useful. Those two desires to not neatly coexist, but this is where we are in the story.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
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