Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone (1992)

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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...

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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

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