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41 " It didn’t matter. He’d learned long ago: perfection isn’t what families are all about. "
― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
42 " Feelings can only be hidden so long from those who really pay attention. page 141 "
― Jamie Ford
43 " Parents always have a story that their children don’t really know, "
― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes
44 " If anger is your currency, then you’re one rich bitch. "
45 " ...the mechanics of dying... "
46 " The present is merely the past reassembled, "
47 " opened it. "
48 " From character Henry Lee in the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, " He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about". Love it! "
49 " -Kuinka kauan sinä odotat minua?-Niin kauan kuin on tarvis. En välitä siitä mitä isäni sanoo.-Entä jos joudun olemaan täällä, kunnes tulen vanhaksi ja hiukseni harmaantuvat?-Sitten tuon sinulle kävelykepin "
50 " Henry handed the record to his old friend, who draped it across his chest. His eyes closed as if he were listening to the music play somewhere,sometime long ago. "
51 " My theory,” Maisie said, “is that the best, worst, happiest, saddest, scariest, and most memorable moments are all connected. Those are the important times, good and bad. The rest is just filler. "
52 " You can't expect children to sew their own gaping wounds without leaving a terrible scar. "
53 " People relations is hard business. Hard to keep that going. "
54 " Happiness. Sadness. Like all things, they both come to an end. "
55 " lunch today? "
56 " We don’t get to choose our parents,” Sunny said. “If we did, some of us might choose never to be born at all. "
― Jamie Ford , Songs of Willow Frost
57 " Seeing isn't believing, feeling is believing." She reached out and patted his coat, finding the space above his heart, where the handbill was safely tucked away. "I feel you. "
58 " The truth of the matter was that these days Gracie barely remembered him. Her mind had become a one-way mirror. Ernest could see her clearly, but to Gracie he’d been lost behind her troubled, distorted reflection. "
59 " sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward. "
60 " He was used to people staring at him on the street—the villagers who’d spat at him or laughed. But for now he felt safely surrounded, comforted, as he drew a deep breath and melted into the girls’ kindness. "