‘That rather depends on how you decide what is real. The scenes I hold in my head are real for the moments I choose them to be. Our brains allow us to live many lives other than our physical existence. Ones we can’t control, like in our
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“there was one time when I went too far and almost died. The water was very cold and I stayed under too long. Someone dragged me out just in time and I made out that it was simply a foolish accident. But I knew that it was more than that, and I learned a valuable lesson from it. I’m a survivor – I don’t want to die. The problem was that I was at the mercy of my emotions – I lacked control, and sometimes my grief could override my will.”
― The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes
― The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes
“I learned to understand my emotions and with that knowledge came a certain degree of control. I have”
― The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes
― The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes
“that our memories are forever evolving, so we only remember the version of the memory we last recalled rather than the original event.”
― The Couple at No. 9
― The Couple at No. 9
“To the three of us.’ She pauses and then adds the words that George Eliot wrote: ‘It is never too late to be what you might have been.’ The three of them raise their glasses in unison.”
― The Book of Beginnings
― The Book of Beginnings
“Every man’s island”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
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