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It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow older. 58 learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell and so forth —

It is easy to charm a person who talks too much: all you have to do is listen.

Imagine being falsely prosecuted for a death in the Thames, being found innocent, then finding a body in the river on your way to work. Wow. Speechless.

He had not even been gone for twenty four hours, but it was as if the simmering anxiety the Brettlers had been living with for the past two years had all at once come to a boil.

So they strove to be more perfect caregivers, like the latest version of some technology that promises to fix all the bugs of the last one.

If knowing someone makes that person stay with you forever, not knowing someone does the same trick: death does not take the dead away; it only makes them grow more deeply into you.

"You know what I hate about people? They like to say, That will teach you a lesson.' But what's the point of a lesson? There's no makeup exam when you fail something in life."

Sometimes a job chooses you. Does a bricklayer love his bricks? Does the dishwasher repairman love the dishwashers?

Time, like air and water, erodes. And there are very few things in life that are impervious to time’s erosion.

To your health and our friendship, both of which are gifts to me.

“But the woman took my heart in her hand. Maybe a man gets only one of those in his life. Even if it breaks his heart.”