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81 " His badness thrilled and amazed me. "
― Joyce Maynard , The Good Daughters
82 " The people she used to have, with whom she might have discussed losing her parents, were the parents she’d lost. But the larger truth was that she couldn’t have talked to them about it anyway. Martin and Vivian had died that night, but they had been largely absent forever. "
― Joyce Maynard , Count the Ways
83 " killed before her, had been covered in tape, in the "
― Joyce Maynard , After Her
84 " Even as a kid, I always had the ability to see down the line to where trouble lay, or truth. George used to complain that I expected the worst out of life, but it wasn’t that. I simply recognized that just because the sun was shining one day didn’t mean it would the next. Frost would come, and so would snow. The fact of rain did not rule out the possibility of drought. You could call it pessimism. I based my attitudes on what I saw in the world around me. Not what I dreamed up. "
85 " Some family's boad capsized at Lake Winnipesaukee the day before and now they were looking for the father's body. "
― Joyce Maynard , Labor Day
86 " Maybe loving her children too much was her downfall—the weight it placed on the three of them, knowing that for their mother they represented everything of greatest meaning in her life. No question their father loved them, too, but without the heavy sense of obligation her devotion seemed to carry with it. "
87 " This was always her problem, of course. That her children’s sorrows became hers. She felt their pain so deeply, she hardly registered her own. "
88 " We lived less like husband and wife, it seemed, than affectionate brother and sister. I told myself there were worse things a person could say about her life than that. "
89 " Like you're out in the ocean and the undertow catches you and you start yelling for help, but then you look around, and all around you in the water for as far as you can see, there's all these other people flailing too. "
― Joyce Maynard , The Usual Rules
90 " I’m a lucky man,” he said, so softly now we had to bend in close to hear. “I have been known. "
― Joyce Maynard , The Best of Us