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1 " He didn't need someone to fix the problem - there was no fixing it. He needed someone to acknowledge his feelings. Accept his pain. Agree that his heart was broken, and that it should be. And that it might stay broken for a long, long time. "
― Julie Lawson Timmer , Five Days Left
2 " Scott's friends on the forum didn't know his big picture. They read a phrase like "It's going to kill me to live without him" for its precise meaning, and nothing else. They didn't read more than those nine words into the message. They didn't take offense, didn't try to talk him out of it. Didn't resent it for its presumed relativity."Of course it is," they said. And it was the same way they'd responded to every other thing he'd told them about himself: his thoughts on parenting, on marriage and sex, on education and race. They read what he wrote, and only what he wrote, and they responded. Not always in agreement - he'd had plenty of heated discussions over the past year on this issue or that. But he didn't need yes-men any more than he needed someone to read twenty-one extra words into the nine he'd written. "
3 " It’s not how we got here,” she said as she went. “Or even that we are here. It’s where we go from here. "
― Julie Lawson Timmer , Mrs. Saint and the Defectives
4 " The thing about setting your life up so you could be completely alone was that you ended up completely alone. "
5 " It’s not how we got here,” she said as she went. “Or even that we are here. It’s where we go from here.” A "
6 " whine from the sidewalk outside her window. Peeking "
7 " like an even more generous gift now that it came with "
8 " She was the backstage director who worked so hard to make the star shine and without whom there could be no show. She was needed. And that made her feel secure. Marriage "
9 " The thing about a dog is, a boy will hug it.” The words were whisper quiet, and because of the accent, and the fact that Markie was facing the opposite direction, it took her a second to figure them out. “He will bury his face in its fur. And he will cry if he needs to. Even if he cannot allow himself to do this in front of another person. "
10 " Forgiveness is not mine to give,” Mrs. Saint said. “It belongs to God. And as to whether he will, she will have to wait and see.” “But a lot of people forgive one another.” “I do not believe in it.” “The Catholic Church does, though, doesn’t it?” “I am not the Catholic Church. And I think it is too easy to get forgiveness from a person. "
11 " mystery another time. Or better yet, she would try harder to ignore it. “What "
12 " Just in case.” He turned to locate her potential future cube, then scanned the prairie rows until his eyes rested on "
13 " batteries in the smoke alarms, and since he “just happened "
14 " not how we got here,” she said as she went. “Or even that we are here. It’s where we go from here.” A "
15 " But he was rationing his words lately, and she knew if she asked him to blow a few dozen on Saturday morning, it could be Monday before he spoke again. "
