To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once.
“The scholastic level of that school down the street, Atticus, couldn’t be any lower and you know it.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“Some things you can’t apologize for, you just have to try to get around them,” Hattie replied. “For your own sake too, so you can have a little peace.”
― The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
― The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“You’d better take time for ’em, honey, otherwise you’ll never grow. You’ll be the same at sixty as you are now—then you’ll be a case and not my niece. You have a tendency not to give anybody elbow room in your mind for their ideas, no matter how silly you think they are.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“I have to think it’s possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.”
― The Wizard Heir
― The Wizard Heir
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