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Life can be cruel, as you know. But it can also be kind. Filled with wonders. You need to remember that. You have your own choice to make, Armand. What’re you going to focus on? What’s unfair, or all the wonderful things that happen? Both are true, both are real. Both need to be accepted. But which carries more weight with you?”
“The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice.”
She’d left the apartment to him in her will, along with all she possessed. Which mostly amounted to her love, which was plentiful, and which he carried with him always.
“Yes, please. And can you tell him, Fluctuat nec mergitur?” “What does it mean?” Jean-Guy asked. “‘Beaten by the waves,’” said the maître d’. “‘But never sinks.’”
Jacques had quoted the Latin motto. Fluctuat nec mergitur. Beaten by the waves, but never sinks.
