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life has a shape but you don’t see the shape until later.
we are both the best thing and the worst thing we’ve ever done. We are all of it, all at once, all the time.
You alone are enough.
“But as I understand it, forgiveness flows in one direction only.”
You belong exactly here, exactly now.
“I am a reader. I am intelligent. I have something worthy to contribute.”
“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
Passer-by, To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.
There’s a story and a meanwhile, and we get to say which is which.”
I’ll miss you madly, but it’s the way of the world to make choices.
“Marriage is no stay against loneliness,”
“I made a good life with a man I did not deeply love.”
his marital loneliness had been broken, more often than he sometimes remembered, by gladness.
Sometimes, rarely, we understand a moment in the moment. Frank understood this moment.
But we never see the shape until the end.
My life unfolded as most lives do, day upon day of doing my best and occasionally my worst, that human continuum.
Even the least eventful life holds an avalanche of stories.
isn’t a story at all. It’s what Harriet would call the meanwhile, the important thing that was happening while the rest of the story moved along.
