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We’ve been slow to climb each other’s family trees, and I’m reminded of what a daunting climb it can be. Branches might snap. I drop my gaze to my hands folded in my lap
“Instead, they’d smile and speak softly, as though I were going to be all right, as though I weren’t wearing one navy and one black loafer. As though I weren’t driving down the street with my purse on the roof of the car or leaving the oven on preheat all night.”
― Good Grief
― Good Grief
“Guilt is a commando who arrives in stealth and then sabotages everything.”
― Innocent
― Innocent
“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story.”
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean
“Relationships are not safeguards against loneliness. You can’t whittle yourself down to being as nice and accepting and likable as possible in order to ensure that as many people as possible won’t leave you. Relationships come and go; that is what they are designed to do.”
― When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
― When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
“The point was never that you adjusted everything around you until it was made perfect, but that you adjusted the way you see everything until you realize that it is enough, and it always has been.”
― When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
― When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
National Book Awards - Fiction
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This Goodreads book club will read all the books that have received a National Book Award - Fiction. We will start with the first book awarded in 1950 ...more
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