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I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother’s face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.
“Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.”
― Nine Stories
― Nine Stories
“And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”
― Franny and Zooey
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“Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,”
― City of Glass
― City of Glass
“I despise people who can't control themselves.”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
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