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“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
“For some reason, it takes my brain a moment to process…the open-close symbols on elevators, which is which.”
― Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir
― Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir
“Then again, Einstein (pretty good at math) was also quite clear when he concluded, There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir
― Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir
“The same five letters can be rearranged to express my daily sense of—and relationship to—time. First from the viewpoint of childhood, then young adulthood, and now, the present. ACRES of it..CARES about it. RACES against it.”
― Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir
― Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: Not Exactly a Memoir
“I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.
"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― The Dutch House
"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― The Dutch House
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