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21 " There's a saying about ranch women. When they're 30, they look 50. When they're 80, they look 50. "
― Craig Lancaster , The Summer Son
22 " For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed. "
23 " The good-byes you refuse to say must be the hardest of all. "
24 " hope is as intangible as belief, "
― Craig Lancaster , 600 Hours of Edward (Edward, #1)
25 " active, pulsing love took a secondary position to expedient need and the narcoleptic inertia of the day-to-day. "
― Craig Lancaster , This Is What I Want
26 " I’m going home, but there’s nothing for me there. I am adrift. I hate that word. "
― Craig Lancaster , Edward Adrift (Edward, #2)
27 " you have made the decision to let people into your life. Part of that involves being disappointed by them sometimes. Part of that involves being thrilled by them sometimes. It’s up to you to decide whether the risk is worth the reward. "
28 " You think silence means something. Sometimes, there's just nothing to say. "
29 " Hugo and I sat together in the chapel and didn’t say a word to each other. We’d already said them all, in better times and in better places. "
― Craig Lancaster , The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
30 " Life will go better for you the less you’re bothered by people and their dumb habits.) "
― Craig Lancaster , Edward Unspooled (Edward #3)
31 " For a long while, Norby had harbored a theory that places acted like dry-cell batteries, storing remnants of the lives of everyone who had ever passed through them. "
32 " I left, but not before I kissed your mother eight times on the lips. That’s what we do, and amid all this uncertainty and lack of normalcy, I think it’s important to maintain our standards. "
33 " I wonder if I worry too much about whether I’m happy or sad anyway. It seems like both of those things show up and leave on their own schedule. Maybe I should just worry about whether I’m doing the appropriate thing or making the appropriate choice. "
34 " There is nothing I can or would attempt to say that could make the pain of losing your mother go away. My own parents have been gone for more than thirty years, and not a day goes by that they don’t cross my mind. But please remember this: you’re her legacy, her greatest work. And she did a wonderful job with you. You are a good, honest, forthright man, and you’re living the life that she gave you a foundation to live. Every day that you wake up is another day that Leila’s legacy lives on. I’m proud to know you, proud to be related to you. And I thank God every day that you’re who you are. So, you could say, I also thank God that she was who she was. "
35 " I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside. I believe that my ideas about green highlighters and yellow highlighters could have served the Muscular Dystrophy Association well, if only they were given a proper and considerate airing. "
36 " nobody really gets what they deserve from this life, that it’s all a question of what you can take while you have the time. "
37 " allow yourself this moment of sadness to mourn the loss of a true original, but let yourself be happy from now on that we were privileged to know him… "
38 " I have not seen a man over there, and so I wonder whether my neighbor has a husband or her boy has a father. I would be sad to think that he doesn’t, but having a father isn’t necessarily a good thing. I have one, and while he did buy this house for me to live in, he also has his lawyer send me a lot of letters and may not have given any thought to radiant floor heating. "
39 " I prefer rock music—my favorites are R.E.M. and Matthew Sweet—but I think that if Dr. Buckley played Matthew Sweet, some of her patients would not like it. Matthew Sweet has a song called “Sick of Myself,” and I am pretty sure that is exactly the wrong song name for a therapist’s waiting room. "
40 " Just because someone loves you, it doesn’t mean that person will act in your best interest. Just because you love someone, it doesn’t mean you can help them with their troubles. "