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“Almost everybody in the world gets married,—you know what I mean? In our town there aren’t hardly any exceptions. Most everybody in the world climbs into their graves married.”

″ Youngest daughter Gertie finally learns to tell time. We have the amusement of baby Charlie’s chapter, in which he toddles up and down the stairs until he finally gets what he wants: namely, his mother to smile at him.”

“P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.”

“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living my Mommy you’ll be.”

“And then Jack chopped down what was the world’s last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant’s children didn’t have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.”

“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect . . . You love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”

“True belonging is not passive. It’s not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It’s not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it’s safer. It’s a practice that requires us to be vulnerable, get uncomfortable, and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are. We want true belonging, but it takes tremendous courage to knowingly walk into hard moments.”

“Now you’ve asked for it, and I’ll give it to you, because there ain’t anything mean about me; but if you find you don’t like it, you mustn’t blame anybody but your own self.”

“Around this time, it became clear to me that I was developing some emotional issues. So I did what every ‘sensible’ adolescent would do: I ignored them.”

“Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams, what utterly incomprehensible things happen to it!”