Elizabeth Strout - The Burgess Boys (2013)

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In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did.

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The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

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You have family", Bob said. "You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That's called family".

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And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.

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The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

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