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“Barbara, shut up,” said her son Luker. “You know very well why it’s a private funeral.” “Why?” “Because we are the only people in Mobile who would have come. There’s no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown.”
“Lord Buddha has often told me that forgiveness is vital to life. I agree. Not for the well-being of the forgiven, though, but for the well-being of the forgiver.”
― Ghostwritten
― Ghostwritten
“take great care with my selections now, knowing my years of reading are coming to an end.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“Great art is a small break from human despair, she explained to her son. It took him twenty years to understand what she meant.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“She had sat in his childhood bedroom and noticed laundry neatly folded, the bed sheets freshly made. His mother had knocked on the door with oatmeal cookies. He was the kind of boy who would become the kind of man that needed tending.”
― All the Colors of the Dark
― All the Colors of the Dark
“I can’t paint the way the art teacher wants. I can’t paint things. There’s something wrong with my brain.” “That’s because you don’t paint things the way they look, you paint them the way they feel,” the janitor replied.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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