"He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination."
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"Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter."
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"I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones."
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"In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost."
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"She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop."
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"I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you."
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"At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup."
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"To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost."
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"It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make."
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"Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much."
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"That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by."
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"Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you."
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"If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are."
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"Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories."
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"Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said."
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"Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice."
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"I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror."
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"what shall we drink to?" "How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." and she clicked glasses with mom"
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"It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care."
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"No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother."
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