“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
“Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.”
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“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
― Open Secrets
― Open Secrets
“She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood – that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.”
― Dear Life
― Dear Life
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