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1 " My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth. "
― Elisabeth Egan
2 " As much as I like my sister-in-law, I didn't want her two cents. This was a conversation for siblings, with in-laws as invested observers. "
― Elisabeth Egan , A Window Opens
3 " And the moral is: If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. —Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs "
4 " When you're a kid, you think you're going to have this deep well of time with your parents when you grow up and you're all on equal footing. "
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6 " Mary Baker Eddy: “Home is the dearest spot on earth, and should be the centre, not the boundary, of the affections. "
7 " Market research shows that Haribo gummies are the leading candy consumed by voracious readers. "
8 " When you're a kid, you think you're going to have this deep well of time with your parents when you grow up and you're all on equal footing. When I had kids of my own, I thought that time would come when my kids grew up and I had a little more freedom. I imagined myself as a fifty-year-old woman, strolling around the duck pond with my eighty-year-old dad. I might have looped my arm through his.Now I knew, this was not to be. "
9 " A rising tide lifts all boats, "
10 " Sometimes you just know. And so you rearrange your life around what you glimpsed through a little window that opened for one second to show you a glimpse of something you might never get to see again. Even so, you know you will never forget the view. "
11 " We paused to nod in deference to a just-arrived mom of six who placed third in her age group in the Ironman and has a successful catering business, No Small Affair. Everyone suspects she's on meth but still, the woman commands respect. "
12 " And the moral is: If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. "
13 " What was it like to be the person who chose books readers would fall in love with, buy for their mothers, and remember forever after, the way you never forget a delicious meal? • "
14 " Snow Child, Girlchild, Seating Arrangements. "
15 " The beauty of the world . . . has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. "
16 " My chubbiest, chattiest toddler was now this lanky boy of few words, whose feet I could smell from across the room. "
17 " Getting set in your ways is the first step toward mediocrity. You have to be nimble. "
18 " The stress rose in my ears like a noise. "
