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Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, Leo. Look at what you have now.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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What was it they said about the difference between a lawyer and a bucket of crap being the bucket?
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn't that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that's why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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The people who get places in life are the ones who stay ahead of the game.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Nao se preocupe com o topo. O certo e se preocupar com o degrau acima. Roma nao foi feita em um dia.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Did you hear about the lawyer hurt in a crash? An ambulance stopped suddenly.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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one of the worst things about electronic communication. Lacking facial expression, tone of voice, or context, words could be taken any number of ways. With only one cryptic word now, I was discouraged.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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She thought about this. She had analyzed it in depth. When you live alone, travel alone, exist solely on the outskirts of other people's lives, you do have time to wonder why what you want most in life is out of reach. You also have the time to tell yourself that you don't want it at all, though whether you can ever be completely convinced is something else.
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life
lost
self-awareness
self-realization
struggle
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Love was such a complex emotion, so overpowering and all-consuming. Love conquered all, the old saying went.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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For in the giving she received. It was what their love was all about.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Who says you have to be the best anyway?" "My dad." Michael gave him a curious look. "Is it because you've done time that you think you're not as good as anybody else?" "Oh, I think I'm as good. Other people are the problem." "Because you're an ex-con?" "And a carpenter. Not as much status in that as in what your dad does." "But if you do it well, that's all that counts. That's what Mom always says. She says I can be whatever I want in life..
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Barbara Delinsky |
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I love crowds. They make me feel part of something big and important.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Little bits were one of Dorey Jewett's gems: small, sweet lobster knuckles that were sauteed in butter. There were no herbs involved, just enough of a Ritz-cracker coating to absorb the butter for ease of eating.
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little-bits
lobster
ritz-crackers
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strangely, he wasn't in the mood to look at files and papers. Not with Heather Cole to look at. For that matter, even the journals might have fallen short--a shocking thought, but one he wasn't about to analyze at the moment. "I wasn't sure you'd be here, and"
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Lesno e da d'rzhish glavata si visoko vdignata i ramenete izpraveni,kogato niakoi te gleda taka,siakash naistina iska da te vidi.Lesno e da sreshchnesh ochite mu,kogato v tiakh s'zirash vsichko,koeto iskash da vidish.Lesno e da se usmikhvash,kogato toi ti e pokazal tolkova krasiv pogled k'm ostat'ka ot zhivota ti.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Litseto mu be kato videnie ot tsvetno st'klo v noshchta-novi mesta,novi khora,nova liubov-tia vidia vsichko v nego.I oshche-dobrota i nezhnost.I priiatelstvo,ispravedlivost.I nadezhda.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Ako toi si be zaminal,togava krai na vsichko.Niamashe da ima utekha,nito toplina,nito posleden pogled k'm onova shchastie,koeto drugite khora pritezhavat.Ako toi si be zaminal,mechtite i biakha m'rtvi.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Roditelite imakha zabelezhitelna vlast nad detsata si.Nezavisimo kolko v'zrastni biakha detsata ili kolko dalech v ezhednevieto si.Ot samoto si razhdane te poluchavakha poslaniia ot roditelite si.Tezi poslaniia biakha pochti tolkova d'lboko otpechatani v psikhikata im,kolkoto tsvet't na kosata,ochite i visochinata-v tekhnite geni.
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smile. "It's growing old that's painful. That's when reality hits. You find yourself with special memories that have nowhere to go and dreams that will never be fulfilled, and it doesn't matter how whimsical or impossible those dreams were. While they were yours, they were lovely." She sighed. "At my age, there isn't much point left in dreaming. That's the painful part."
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work--and what to do when they break.
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women
women-s-fiction
women-s-strength
women-writers
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You have a fuchsia heart. And a fuchsia heart doesn't die, it simply bides its time, taking a backseat to pragmatism, all while leaking helpless drops of color here and there. Hence, teal gables, turquoise earrings, and saffron scarves.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Is it harder to dream about what you don't have, than to live in fear of losing what you do?
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Quinnipeague in August was a lush green place where inchworms dangled from trees whose leaves were so full that the eaten parts were barely missed. Mornings meant 'thick o' fog' that caught on rooftops and dripped, blurring weathered gray shingles while barely muting the deep pink of rosa rugosa or the hydrangea's blue. Wood smoke filled the air on rainy days, pine sap on sunny ones, and wafting through it all was the briny smell of the sea..
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colors
earthy
maine
morning-light
quinnipeague
scents
weather
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tall, dark-haired guy
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Barbara Delinsky |
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From heartache came strength, from strength, satisfaction.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Cinematographers couldn
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Barbara Delinsky |
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mother. The doctors want them
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Barbara Delinsky |
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electronic communication was great when you weren't up for a whole discussion. So I texted Mom to thank her for coming. She texted back that she loved me.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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turned off the BlackBerry before James could text back. I might hate electronic wizardry, but it was my ally now. I could use it or not, could respond to James or not, and with my calls simply showing "New York" on his caller ID, he had no idea where I was."
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Barbara Delinsky |
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He had forgotten that children were miracles--and it didn't matter that he had originally wanted to wait longer before having a child, he had been in the delivery room when Julia was born. He knew the awe that came with the emergence of a fully formed, perfectly functioning, miniature human being that he had helped make.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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She scrunched herself around the tickling and giggled. It was a heavenly sound. He moved the bunny back, hopped it forward, tickled her again. The giggling was precious, both in its lack of guile and its spontaneity. He was amazed at how easily it had come.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? There are skid marks in front of the dog.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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June would always be Charlotte's favorite month on Quinnipeague. She loved the frothy roil of the sea as it recovered from a day of rain, and in those early mornings, before the fog lifted and sun warmed the island, there was nothing, nothing better than a wood fire, wool socks, and hot chocolate made from scratch.
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flowers
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nature-s-beauty
ocean
quinnipeague
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out. He watched her when they were at Kate's tennis
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Barbara Delinsky |
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The good news was that the newspaper he had ordered was right at his door as promised. The bad news was that he had forgotten to buy milk for his breakfast. So he dumped the cereal back into the box, swept the overflow into the sink, and put second best, a bagel, into the toaster while he read the paper. He was barely past the first page when the toaster started to smoke. He pushed up the handle; the bagel stayed down. Smoke continued to cu..
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Barbara Delinsky |
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And then--the kicker--they were cousins. Casey suspected she would forever feel protective of Meg, and that wasn't a bad thing.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Il l'emporta - il la transporta loin, vers un endroit ou elle n'aurait jamais pu aller sans lui- mais, lorsque ce fut fini, le retour ne l'effraya pas. Leo semblait solide. Enracine. Vrai. Ils resterent assis dans l'herbe un long moment. Il avait le dos appuye contre le tronc d'un arbre et un bras autour de Charlotte, qui avait pose la joue contre son torse. Ce torse etait doux, muscle et sentait Leo. Gagnee par une grande paix interieure, ..
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Listen to me, Dad. When Dylan's first cornea went bad, I grieved for the perfect child he should have been. I told myself that the diagnosis was wrong. I bargained with God--you know, make his eyes right and I'll do anything. When that didn't work I was absolutely furious that my child had to face this. In the end I had no choice. I had to accept it, because that was the only way I could help Dylan." She straightened. "Grieving is a process..
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Barbara Delinsky |
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She's my mother. I'm not sure you get the same kind of unconditional love in your life from anyone but a mother.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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poured himself into his work
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Barbara Delinsky |
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She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Still there were times, as Jill whirled through her final preparations, when Emily stood watching her, wondering where the years had gone, wishing them back.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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You'll always be with me, Mom. Kind of like Jordan's perennials. Every year, something'll bloom in my life to remind me of you. It'll always be different, never the same, but it'll be good. Love lasts.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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matter that the robe was pure silk and had cost a fortune, their daughter wouldn't be caught dead in anything
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Barbara Delinsky |