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One Sunday morning, I’m standing next to Gerry in church during worship time and find I’m unable to open my mouth. I look around at others standing with hands and voices lifted in praise and wonder how it can be no one senses what’s
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“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“Sometimes I think everyone should be handed a manual for this stuff when they turn fourteen. That seems like a good age. Starting high school. Staring at the business end of your childhood, when you have to start growing up. So maybe the school should distribute a book called The Field Guide for Broken People. Between Vivi and me alone, we could write a bunch of chapters. Dead Dad. No Dad. Despondent Mom. Flaky Mom. But each broken person is different, and there is no right way for everyone. Just a lot of wrong ways.”
― When We Collided
― When We Collided
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Andrea’s 2025 Year in Books
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