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“Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
“When a colleague at Brandeis died suddenly of a heart attack, Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed.
“What a waste,” he said. “All those people saying those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it”.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“What a waste,” he said. “All those people saying those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it”.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“He was intent on proving that the word ‘dying’ was not synonymous with ‘useless’.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
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