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Oh how she loved my brother and me. Obsessively, she once confessed to an interviewer. Well, Mummy…vice versa.
“Part of her wishes she could travel forward in time, and skip to the end of the war. But there is also part of her that prays for time to stop. For there is no telling what the future might bring.”
― We Were the Lucky Ones
― We Were the Lucky Ones
“I would never tell you that the life you wanted couldn’t have been exactly as great as you planned. But you have to live the life you have. You have to find inspiration in the struggle, and pull joy out of the hardship.”
― How to Walk Away
― How to Walk Away
“Our childhood was a fire. There had been four children in the house and only two of them had gotten out.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
“Maybe it was possible, we thought, to rise above the pathetic holidays of our youth.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
“The fact that I had never wanted to be a doctor was nothing more than a footnote to a story that interested no one. You wouldn’t think a person could succeed in something as difficult as medicine without wanting to do it, but it turned out I was part of a long and noble tradition of self-subjugation.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
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