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“Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House,”
“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3
― The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3
“Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
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