Anne Tyler - Children Quotes

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'The doctor says I'm going blind,' she told the children, but privately, she'd intended to do no such thing.

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'I'm falling into disrepair,' she told the children. 'I've outlived myself.'

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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

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'You almost died,' a nurse told her. But that was nonsense. Of course she wouldn't have died; she had children. When you have children, you're obligated to live.

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She had supposed that on her deathbed, she would have something final to tell her children when they gathered round. But nothing was final. She didn't have anything to tell them. She felt a kind of shyness; she felt inadequate.

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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

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