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“Multi-billion. Real estate, manufacturing, investments. The whole business landed on them.”
“How she lived for them, and because of them. And in spite of everything.”
― The Names
― The Names
“She's 68 now, and although she knows the idea of being put out to pasture is a phrase others associate with obsolescence and redundancy, for her it conjures lushes green fields filled with buttercups where she's free to roam.”
― The Names
― The Names
“She suspects that, to be a good parent, she must pack away the mothering part of herself into a box and gently close the lid on it. She had not realised this is what would be required of her, had not seen it coming. And yet she will do so willingly. Would you lay down your life for your child? the world silently asks. Yes, she’s done this. But she hadn’t known there would be a second reckoning, where this would eventually mean laying down the arms of motherhood: caution, foreseeing, checking, reminding, nurturing, openly caring.”
― The Names
― The Names
“Yes, people's lives bump and collide and we send one another spinning off in different directions. But that 's life. It's not unique to you. We each make our own choices.”
― The Names
― The Names
“Until he was widowed, Fred never realized that he’d taken physical touch for granted—yet it meant so much. How many millions of other people were going without hugs?”
― The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
― The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
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