“we are happiest living our lives this way—saying I love you and kissing each other good-bye in the morning, venturing out into the uncaring world to have all kinds of adventures, then returning home to share our daily pocketful of collected anecdotes and complaints.15”
― I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
― I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
“We're all Americans tonight.”
― The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
― The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
“Of course no one is the Right Person when you meet her; this is just an illusion necessary to lure you into investing the years and making the sacrifices necessary to love someone. It's like telling yourself your book is going to be a masterpiece and make you rich in order to undertake the laborious ordeal of writing it. It's only after making all those compromises and forfeitures, and amassing a shared fortune in memories, regrets, in-jokes and secrets, fights and reconciliations, that that person becomes the only possible one for you, unique and irreplaceable.”
― I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
― I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
“Clemens was a passenger, Clemens Briels, and when teachers at the school did a little further checking, they learned that he was a renowned Dutch artist. In fact, Briels was one of the official artists for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The drawing he crafted on the school blackboard was a version of his piece A Jump for Joy. one of the paintings he created especially for the Olympic Games and which was on display in Salt Lake City. The principal had the blackboard removed from the wall, framed, and covered with Plexiglas. It now hangs in the school’s library.”
― The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
― The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
“Young people don’t say the new normal anymore; to them it’s just normal. But I guess no one finds themselves in the same country they were born in at the ends of their lives. We all die in exile.”
― I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
― I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
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