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“Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House,”
“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
“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
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“Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.”
― 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
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