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Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan for providing me an advanced ecopy of the book. This review is solely my opinion.3.5 stars, rounded up.
To this baby boomer reviewer, this book was like Still Alice (Lisa Genova) except instead of following the Alz ...more "
“The sun had pulled its socks up and was making a good effort in the almost cloudless winter sky,”
― Dear Mrs. Bird
― Dear Mrs. Bird
“Life is about change. If you don't change, you'll never grow.”
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“The downside of erasing history is that you lose what’s beautiful as well as what’s hard to bear.”
― Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
― Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
“It wasn't a miracle. You believed. And made it happen.”
― The Long Flight Home
― The Long Flight Home
“There is perhaps only one thing to say to this infant, who is all future, overlapping briefly with me, whose life, barring the improbable, is all but past.
That message is simple:
When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man's days with a sated joy, unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
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That message is simple:
When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man's days with a sated joy, unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
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