“I ask myself: Is he or she the main character in his or her life? What is her motive? Or is she a secondary character in her own tale? Is she in the process of editing herself out of her story, because her husband, her career, her children or her job are consuming her entire text?” Max Jordan’s eyes widened. “I’ve got about thirty thousand stories”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Forgiveness is a whisper of possibility, of openness. It was an act of restoration, an act of healing, an act of empathy. Forgiveness, I understood,”
― The Story She Left Behind
― The Story She Left Behind
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