Anna Quindlen - Every Last One (2010)

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This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

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And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

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There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existence.

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Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

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Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

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Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

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I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention; in other words, they're just life happening. That's what I think about: life, and telling a story.

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I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

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