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b5863cf	I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.	love inspirational	Anne Tyler
07de5c2	I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get	inspirational	Anne Tyler
8dc3bbd	It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.	self-discovery	Anne Tyler
e23df6b	People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.		Anne Tyler
6ccbe21	The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)		Anne Tyler
e74327c	It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.		Anne Tyler
8a477b4	Everything,' his father said, 'comes down to time in the end--to the passing of time, to changing. Ever thought of that? Anything that makes you happy or sad, isn't it all based on minutes going by? Isn't sadness wishing time back again? Even big things--even mourning a death: aren't you really just wishing to have the time back when that person was alive? Or photos--ever notice old photographs? How wistful they make you feel? ... Isn't it ..		Anne Tyler
4979008	There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.		Anne Tyler
a34c7a8	Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.		Anne Tyler
340994f	He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.		Anne Tyler
c5e99c5	But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.	risk-taking regret	Anne Tyler
b107bf9	Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!		Anne Tyler
ef4ba55	It's like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It's still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I'm not sure that will ever change.		Anne Tyler
2460c6f	The trouble with dying," she'd told Jeannie once, "is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending." --		Anne Tyler
a6bc060	When you have children, you're obligated to live.		Anne Tyler
4f4c479	Houses need humans," Red said. "You all should know that. Oh, sure, humans cause wear and tear--scuffed floors and stopped-up toilets and such--but that's nothing compared to what happens when a house is left on its own. It's like the heart goes out of it. It sags, it slumps, it starts to lean toward the ground."		Anne Tyler
06c1cbb	I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a..		Anne Tyler
7cdf0f6	But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst.		Anne Tyler
1589988	admh fkhr mykhnnd zdstddn ykh `zyz mthl trkh khrdn sygr st. rwz wWl khyly skht st. rwz b`d skhty khmtr myshwd w bh tdryj z byn myrwd w hrchh khh mygdhrd tHmWlsh asntr w asntr myshwd. mW mn mygwym mthl abnkhwrdn st. hrrwz byshtr mtwjWh zdstrftn `zyzt myshwy>>		Anne Tyler
19c967f	it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.		Anne Tyler
de1d9ef	But it's like time is sort of ... balanced. We're young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we're old for years and years, but time flies by fastest then. So it all comes out equal in the end, don't you see.		Anne Tyler
56abd1b	She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.		Anne Tyler
21b55e9	There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.		Anne Tyler
7e6a495	You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?'		Anne Tyler
5cd200d	Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.		Anne Tyler
69b7311	But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories--all that they take away with them. What if heaven is just a vast consciousness that the dead return to? And their assignment is to report on the experiences they collected during their time on earth. The hardware store their father owned with the cat asleep on the grass seed, and the friend they used to laug..		Anne Tyler
f843545	That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with.		Anne Tyler
960a5e5	You know how you just have to touch your child, sometimes? How you drink him in with your eyes and you could stare at him for hours and you marvel at how dear and impossibly perfect he is?		Anne Tyler
8df344d	I'm falling into disrepair	funny-but-sad	Anne Tyler
15fb3ea	He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.		Anne Tyler
ca1b752	But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories--all that they take away with them.		Anne Tyler
e843cd9	It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it's all going to end.		Anne Tyler
b74a63d	It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it"."		Anne Tyler
3c05889	And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.		Anne Tyler
8286308	No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.		Anne Tyler
09928be	Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.'		Anne Tyler
ef1454f	The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.	love divorce	Anne Tyler
5b6e457	Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.	life smell nostalgia	Anne Tyler
7eac906	You could really feel physically wounded if someone hurt your feelings badly enough.		Anne Tyler
61f652e	She remembered the feel of wind on summer nights - how it billows through the house and wafts the curtains and smells of tar and roses		Anne Tyler
d327380	You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.	relationship listening	Anne Tyler
f8ba8db	he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.		Anne Tyler
98583ce	Why did popular songs always focus on romantic love? Why this preoccupation with first meetings, sad partings, honeyed kisses, heartbreak, when life was also full of children's births and trips to the shore and longtime jokes with friends? Once Maggie had seen on TV where archaeologists had just unearthed a fragment of music from who knows how many centuries B.C., and it was a boys lament for a girl who didn't love him back. Then besides th..		Anne Tyler
9e188bc	The thing about caller ID is," Red said, more or less to himself, "it seems a little like cheating. A person should be willing to take his chances, answering the phone."		Anne Tyler

b5863cf

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

love inspirational

Anne Tyler

07de5c2

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

inspirational

Anne Tyler

8dc3bbd

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

self-discovery

Anne Tyler

e23df6b

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

Anne Tyler

6ccbe21

The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)

Anne Tyler

e74327c

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Anne Tyler

8a477b4

Everything,' his father said, 'comes down to time in the end--to the passing of time, to changing. Ever thought of that? Anything that makes you happy or sad, isn't it all based on minutes going by? Isn't sadness wishing time back again? Even big things--even mourning a death: aren't you really just wishing to have the time back when that person was alive? Or photos--ever notice old photographs? How wistful they make you feel? ... Isn't it ..

Anne Tyler

4979008

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

Anne Tyler

a34c7a8

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

Anne Tyler

340994f

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

Anne Tyler

c5e99c5

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

risk-taking regret

Anne Tyler

b107bf9

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Anne Tyler

ef4ba55

It's like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It's still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I'm not sure that will ever change.

Anne Tyler

2460c6f

The trouble with dying," she'd told Jeannie once, "is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending." --

Anne Tyler

a6bc060

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

Anne Tyler

4f4c479

Houses need humans," Red said. "You all should know that. Oh, sure, humans cause wear and tear--scuffed floors and stopped-up toilets and such--but that's nothing compared to what happens when a house is left on its own. It's like the heart goes out of it. It sags, it slumps, it starts to lean toward the ground."

Anne Tyler

06c1cbb

I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a..

Anne Tyler

7cdf0f6

But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst.

Anne Tyler

1589988

admh fkhr mykhnnd zdstddn ykh `zyz mthl trkh khrdn sygr st. rwz wWl khyly skht st. rwz b`d skhty khmtr myshwd w bh tdryj z byn myrwd w hrchh khh mygdhrd tHmWlsh asntr w asntr myshwd. mW mn mygwym mthl abnkhwrdn st. hrrwz byshtr mtwjWh zdstrftn `zyzt myshwy>>

Anne Tyler

19c967f

it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

Anne Tyler

de1d9ef

But it's like time is sort of ... balanced. We're young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we're old for years and years, but time flies by fastest then. So it all comes out equal in the end, don't you see.

Anne Tyler

56abd1b

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

Anne Tyler

21b55e9

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

Anne Tyler

7e6a495

You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?'

Anne Tyler

5cd200d

Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.

Anne Tyler

69b7311

But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories--all that they take away with them. What if heaven is just a vast consciousness that the dead return to? And their assignment is to report on the experiences they collected during their time on earth. The hardware store their father owned with the cat asleep on the grass seed, and the friend they used to laug..

Anne Tyler

f843545

That was one of the worst things about losing your wife, I found: your wife is the very person you want to discuss it all with.

Anne Tyler

960a5e5

You know how you just have to touch your child, sometimes? How you drink him in with your eyes and you could stare at him for hours and you marvel at how dear and impossibly perfect he is?

Anne Tyler

8df344d

I'm falling into disrepair

funny-but-sad

Anne Tyler

15fb3ea

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

Anne Tyler

ca1b752

But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories--all that they take away with them.

Anne Tyler

e843cd9

It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it's all going to end.

Anne Tyler

b74a63d

It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it"."

Anne Tyler

3c05889

And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

Anne Tyler

8286308

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

Anne Tyler

09928be

Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.'

Anne Tyler

ef1454f

The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

love divorce

Anne Tyler

5b6e457

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

life smell nostalgia

Anne Tyler

7eac906

You could really feel physically wounded if someone hurt your feelings badly enough.

Anne Tyler

61f652e

She remembered the feel of wind on summer nights - how it billows through the house and wafts the curtains and smells of tar and roses

Anne Tyler

d327380

You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.

relationship listening

Anne Tyler

f8ba8db

he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

Anne Tyler

98583ce

Why did popular songs always focus on romantic love? Why this preoccupation with first meetings, sad partings, honeyed kisses, heartbreak, when life was also full of children's births and trips to the shore and longtime jokes with friends? Once Maggie had seen on TV where archaeologists had just unearthed a fragment of music from who knows how many centuries B.C., and it was a boys lament for a girl who didn't love him back. Then besides th..

Anne Tyler

9e188bc

The thing about caller ID is," Red said, more or less to himself, "it seems a little like cheating. A person should be willing to take his chances, answering the phone."

Anne Tyler