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“How wonderful a thing it is, to understand someone else without even trying to.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“That's why you can eat cheesecake,' she said, and sighed. 'Because you don't. That's the way it works.”
― Ann Patchett, The Patron Saint of Liars

“But at the time I feared he had sensed my love and had run as fast as he could in the other direction...Every time I thought about it, my throat clenched up and my stomach flipped over, and I wished the world would swallow me up so I wouldn't have to feel that way ever again.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness

“It's Grandma, in the farthest stall. Grandma, getting sick. It goes on for way too long, and I make myself listen instead of covering my ears, because if she has to feel that, then someone else should have to hear it. It is too lonely otherwise.”
― Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness