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You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.
Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.
You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.
All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?
It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.
Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.
I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.
I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother
The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.
She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.
Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.
No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.
Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris
Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.
Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.
It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.
Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.
She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.