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"The plot is interesting, the characters are interesting, but I'm not sure about the prose. I feel like the author really liked certain scenes or characters more than others, and when he has to write something he doesn't find interesting he just throws in adjectives until he hits his page count.
I'm also a much slower reader since having a baby, so it may be I'm more picky about narration than I used to be." — Jul 21, 2017 12:35PM
"The plot is interesting, the characters are interesting, but I'm not sure about the prose. I feel like the author really liked certain scenes or characters more than others, and when he has to write something he doesn't find interesting he just throws in adjectives until he hits his page count.
I'm also a much slower reader since having a baby, so it may be I'm more picky about narration than I used to be." — Jul 21, 2017 12:35PM
“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
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“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”
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“Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Gift from the Sea
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Gift from the Sea
“If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.”
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“A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
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