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As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her, she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

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Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

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I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

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Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?

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I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.

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It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

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If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

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You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

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You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

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No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

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To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

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Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.

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But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

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Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

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You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

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Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

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Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

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How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

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I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

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The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

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I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

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The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

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A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

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Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

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It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

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I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

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Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

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I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.

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When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

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The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

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