Holly (Holly Gibney #3)
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Forty is when you have to stop kidding yourself that you’re still a young anything. If you don’t—if you subscribe to such self-actualizing bullshit as “forty is the new twenty-five”—you’re going to find yourself starting to slide. Just a little at first, but then a little more, and all at once you’re fifty with a belly poking out your belt buckle and cholesterol-busters in the medicine cabinet. At twenty, the body forgives. At forty, forgiveness is provisional at best.
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Holly knows this is how addicts think and behave: they rearrange the furniture of their lives to make room for their bad habits.
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No Miss America, but she was a prom queen back in high school. And nobody dumped a bucket of blood on her, either.”
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Here is another relationship chilled by the fast-talking man in the red tie. It’s not fate and not coincidence.
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What you don’t want to do is what must be done first. Then it’s out of the way.
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You believe that, Holly thinks. You believe it to your very soul, because you’re a holder-onner, and holder-onners are never able to understand let-goers. They are tribes that just can’t understand each other. Sort of like vaxxers and anti-vaxxers, Trumpers and Never Trumpers.
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love isn’t always support. Sometimes love is taking the supports away.
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“Gifts are fragile. You must never entrust yours to people who might break it.”
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“Old age is a time of casting away, which is bad enough, but it’s also a time of escalating indignities.”