“Two losses, in fact. Two very dear children: Emily and Nicholas. It was true that these days there happened to be two very dear grown-ups who were also named Emily and Nicholas, but they weren’t the same people. It was just as if those children had died. He’d been in mourning ever since.”
― French Braid
― French Braid
“People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Sometimes people live first one life and then another life,” her grandmother said. “First a family life and then later a whole other kind of life. That’s what I’m doing.”
― French Braid
― French Braid
“She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
― First Frost
― First Frost
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