"She waited for you in a thousand different ways."
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"It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow."
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"She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle."
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"It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement."
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"Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know."
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"You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?"
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"This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much."
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"Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate"
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"Popularity means people think they know you."
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"What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?"
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"I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life."
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"If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow."
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"I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship]."
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"She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks"
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"The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line."
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"It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs."
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"One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life."
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"Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I'll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire."
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"Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing."
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"He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red."
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