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“A mother knows her children’s weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.”
― A Family Affair
― A Family Affair
“everything—sound, sight, feeling, certainly understanding. Christine remembered little of that night other than the smear of life and loss pulling her under, sinking her soul, and the sight of her mother crumpled in a chair with Uncle Harry and his glass of Johnny Walker Red. A man called, he’d said…”
― A Family Affair
― A Family Affair
“Because if you don't even believe in the possibility of magic you will never ever find it.”
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“Why couldn’t people just be who they were? Womanizers, drinkers, liars, and manipulators, instead of pretending around it all, hiding the secrets like dirty laundry stuffed under a bed, and then dying, so the grieving got whammed with two losses—the flesh-and-blood bodies and the images they thought they knew.”
― A Family Affair
― A Family Affair
“How could parents raise children and then watch them walk out of their lives? Were thy all masochists? Why would they do that to themselves? He knew the answer deep down; he'd felt it when Chrissie told him she loved him. They did because for all the pain and heartache children brough, they gave back equal amounts of pure, limmitless joy.”
― A Family Affair
― A Family Affair
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