“It’s not about the time. It’s about how you spend it. Where you put your energy—”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“One of the worst parts of the whole thing, Alice understood, was that doctors were almost always guessing. They were smart people, and the guesses were informed by tests and trials and years of experience, but they were guessing nonetheless.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“withholding forgiveness can also cause more harm than good. It can tighten its grip on you and keep you bound to the person who hurt you.”
― One Summer in Savannah
― One Summer in Savannah
“He had been young, and she had been young - they had been young together. Why was it so hard to see that, how close generations were? That children and their parents were companions through life. Maybe that's why she was here now. Maybe this was the moment when they were both at their best, and together.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“When she was a teenager, the 1980s had felt far away, a lifetime ago, but now, when she was so many more decades ahead, 1996 still felt recent. The first twenty years of her life had gone by in slow motion--the endless summers, the space from birthday to birthday almost immeasurable--but the second twenty years had gone by in a flash. Days could still be slow, of course, but weeks and months and sometimes even years zipped along, like a rope slipping through your hands.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
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