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“You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.”
― Heart the Lover
― Heart the Lover
“That feeling of being read to, of being wrapped up in her voice, those words, whatever place the story had taken us to. It sounds stupid, but it was like a magic carpet.”
― The Names
― The Names
“I’ve noticed that about people who had stable childhoods. They like to create their own problems.”
― Heart the Lover
― Heart the Lover
“She's 68 now, and although she knows the idea of being put out to pasture is a phrase others associate with obsolescence and redundancy, for her it conjures lushes green fields filled with buttercups where she's free to roam.”
― The Names
― The Names
“I think of my mother when I'm on a plane. I think of her many places, even though she's been gone sixteen years now. She's never seen my boys, but she's helped me raise them. I know how much she loves them. I feel that.”
― Heart the Lover
― Heart the Lover
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