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“Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House,”
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3
― The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3
“A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Anything can happen. But what goes wrong isn’t your fault. You can’t spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won’t work. You’ll just end up missing the life you have.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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