He’d not had much experience with families, but he’d always assumed that being part of one was important: a prerequisite for stability, what one relied on to get through the hard times. He’d never really considered that a family could
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“Men can’t bear what women must. They jump to cry insanity as cause for a woman’s unhappiness; the utterance of the unutterable must be dementia.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“The following morning they were angry at the sun for rising, and couldn’t forgive the world for living on without her.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“who have learned to brush the past aside instead of bowing before it. But where they have done so in service of their beloved individualism, we are attempting to do so in service of the common good.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“Polite make-believe is weary business,”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of supreme lucidity—a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of a bold new life that we had been meant to lead all along.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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