“Power isn’t doing something terrible to someone who’s weaker than you, Reiner. It’s having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
“Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”
― Love the One You're With
― Love the One You're With
“However, no child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“She had always thought that exquisitely happy time at the beginning of her relationship with Nick was the ultimate, the feeling they'd always be trying to replicate, to get back, but now she realized that was wrong. That was like comparing sparkling mineral water to French champagne. Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But love after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best--well, that sort of a love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”
― What Alice Forgot
― What Alice Forgot
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