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1 " Because life isn’t static,” he says. “It keeps changing. We think we know where we are, then something happens and we’re somewhere else, and we have to find our way all over again. "
― Barbara Delinsky , A Week at the Shore
2 " Life through a child’s eye has to be supersized to hold the huge wealth of possibility she sees. "
3 " Memory is life experience. When we deny it, there’s a hole where it should "
4 " Family can be a challenge,” I say, “but the alternative is worse. That’s why we’re here, Joy. My sisters and I experienced life together but differently, and we’ve been apart for twenty years. What you’re seeing now is a … rapprochement. "
5 " The best way out is always through,’ Robert Frost says. "
6 " When we don’t have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don’t need it, that we don’t want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don’t see, we don’t miss. Then, as Paul said, something happens, "
7 " If I tell her about Ronald Doe, I’ll have to get into the whole thing about Elizabeth’s estate, in which case Anne may jump to the worst conclusion and go to the police herself. So no to that, too. "
8 " Accept what you can’t change by changing what you can’t accept. My father may have died nearly in front of my daughter’s nose, but I won’t have her thinking the timing was all bad. I can change the narrative. Can’t I? "
9 " Every memory is real, but not all are based on fact. Time, forgetfulness, emotional need—any of these things can chip away at memory. "
