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121 " I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward. "
― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
122 " I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me. He "
123 " His father looked up at him, his mind straining to force his disobedient body into activity. Each movement of his mouth took incredible effort. Just breathing in and out enough to generate sound appeared nearly impossible. Still, his fingers gripped Henry's so slightly it was almost imperceptible And a single phrase slipped out. "Saang jan."It meant "stranger". As in "You are a stranger to me. "
124 " That was the true key to success in life, Henry though--consistency. "
125 " Parents always have a story that their children don’t really know,” Ernest said. “I guess this is mine. "
― Jamie Ford , Love and Other Consolation Prizes
126 " His father had said once that the hardest choices in life aren’t between what’s right and what’s wrong but between what’s right and what’s best. The best thing was to let her go. "
127 " time apart has a way of creating distance – more than the mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much. "
128 " If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something wrong. "
― Jamie Ford
129 " But what I am certain of is that all of this happened during the tail end of the orphan train era, when children were given away with aplomb. And while it’s clear that a baby boy was offered as a prize at the AYP, it’s likely that no one claimed him, and his subsequent fate is unknown. And I like the unknown. That’s when I decided to write this story. "
130 " Perché la scomoda verità era che nessuno era del tutto buono o del tutto cattivo. Né madri né padri, né figli né figlie, né mogli né mariti. La vita sarebbe stata molto più facile se fosse stato così. Invece ognuno portava in sé una mescolanza confusa di amore e odio, gioia e dolore, nostalgia e oblio, verità travisate e inganni dolorosi. "
― Jamie Ford , Songs of Willow Frost
131 " . . .I think a lot of people just don't want to go back. Sometimes that's the best thing to do--to live in the present. "
132 " His father had said once that the hardest choices in life aren’t between what’s right and what’s wrong but between what’s right and what’s best. "
133 " There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and forever long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we’re lucky, twice in a lifetime. And when they do, they affect our gravity.” He said, “You know what I mean? "
134 " These people are special. "
135 " Obedience as a sign of loyalty, as an expression of honor, even as an act of love, was a well-worn theme in his household "
136 " Father believed in a government of the people but was wary of who those people were. "
137 " You can’t take credit for stuff that goes back to before you were even born. You understand me? "
138 " You just gave me hope, Henry." Mr. Okabe shook Henry's small hand and looked him in the eye. "And sometimes hope is enough to get you through anything. "
139 " I had my chance.” He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. “I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward. "
140 " They’d been pinned down with thumbscrews of truth, preferring the monotony of melancholy to the nauseating highs and lows of hope and inevitable disappointment. "