Jamie Ford - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009)

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It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

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Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.

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I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is—it just matters that it feels like home.

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The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

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He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

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Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.

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But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

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Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person.

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After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

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I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

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