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21 " A childhood like mine is a cancer; you know it will spread and alter everything it touches, and when you want to preserve the good things, you would be foolish to let them near such poison. "
― Susan Scarf Merrell , Shirley
22 " An adventure can begin without warning, that the most minor decisions—right, left—can change lives in a moment. That friendships, even the best of them, don't always survive. Oh, and this: that so much of what happens can't ever be proved—the best we can do is write out paltry tales. "
23 " we were students; you read my story in the threshold. you said to your roommate, 'this woman has something. i'm going to meet her.' you told him. 'and if she's anything like her writing, i'm going to marry her.' wasn't i? wasn't i? "
24 " A veritable nesting doll of nurture—house, me, baby—in sweet placental drift. "