“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. ”
― Away from Her
― Away from Her
“People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.”
― Friend of My Youth
― Friend of My Youth
“I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
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“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”
― Too Much Happiness
― Too Much Happiness
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