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From The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan ~On people wanting her to write their life story:They just want me to tell their story, and they need a writer to put the words down in a way others will understand. They want people to know what they have been through. They want witnesses, because it's lonely to go through life with your heartaches. They are people who believe that they can find some sort of redemption, if only their story is told to the world, if only they can get it off their chest.
In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
My favorite author is John Irving I read The World According to Garp for the first time in 8th grade and I Loved it. I remember to this day reading the last line.
"In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."
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