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“I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.”
― While I Was Gone
― While I Was Gone
“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”
― The Art of Mending
― The Art of Mending
“A library is infinity under a roof.”
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“No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.”
― Midwives
― Midwives
“But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.”
― While I Was Gone
― While I Was Gone
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