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I'd never met anyone so vibrant or alive. He moved like light.
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Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.
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You have to digest life. You have to chew it up and love it all through.
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If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.
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And yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.
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I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.
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People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.
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My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.
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Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
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All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.
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But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
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I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.
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Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
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I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.
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To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.
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It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.
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And that's when he finally tells me his name is Ernest. I'm thinking of giving it away, though. Ernest is so dull, and Hemingway? Who wants a Hemingway?
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She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.
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At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.
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Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.
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Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.
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It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should—a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Paula McLain
Born:
1965
(age 59)
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