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“I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected o the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
― Angela’s Ashes
― Angela’s Ashes
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