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101 " The biggest lie in business is that it takes money to make money. Remember that. You’ve got to be smart, have a plan, pay attention to what’s going on around you. None of that costs a dime. "
― Ann Patchett , The Dutch House
102 " things we could do nothing about were best put out of our minds. "
103 " There was nothing wrong with the house really, other than it was too small: tiny closets, one bathroom. “I don’t care how rich you are, you can only use one bathroom at a time,” Maeve said. "
104 " I don't keep up the way I should. That's the real drag about graduating. There's never as much time to read when there's no one there to make you do it. "
105 " winter no matter how high Sandy "
106 " He saw Mr. Otterson as the Willy Wonka of produce. "
107 " Listen, there’s no sense wondering about your mother. Everybody’s got a burden in life and this is yours. She’s gone. You have to live with that. "
108 " Where will they build the new Health Sciences building?” He waved his hand as if to indicate up there, north. “I have no idea. You’d think that would be the first order of business, but until they get that major gift they don’t make any commitments. I imagine it has to be somewhere near the Armory. Do you know about the Armory? What a disaster that’s going to be. "
109 " I dug my face into the pillow. I was waking up and I did not want to wake up. "
110 " Disappointment comes from expectation, and in those days I had no expectation that Andrea would get anything less than what she wanted. "
111 " To list the things I didn’t ask my father about would be to list the stars in heaven, so let me throw out one: I did not ask my father about women. Not women in general and what you were supposed to do with them, and definitely not women in the particular: my mother, my sister, Andrea. "
112 " was forty-nine on the day of his second wedding, and his new wife in her champagne satin was thirty-one. Still, Maeve and I had no idea why he married her. Looking back, I have "
113 " the dreary soon-to-be radiologists and urologists in half an inch of eyeliner bursting into gleeful song—was to see what they might have done with their lives had their lives belonged only to them. "
114 " Chemistry is a beautiful system,” Dr. Able said. “Every block builds on the previous block. If you don’t understand chapter 1, there’s no point in going on to chapter 2. Chapter 1 provides the keys to chapter 2, and chapters 1 and 2 together provide the keys to chapter 3. We’re on chapter 4 now. It isn’t possible to suddenly start working hard on chapter 4 and catch up to the rest of the class. You have no keys. "
115 " ...her mother’s arms around her, her mother’s heartbeat and breath behind her. No other moment in life could match this. "
116 " Then I remembered what my father had told me, that the things we could do nothing about were best put out of our minds. I gave it a try and found that it was easier than I imagined. "
117 " odds "
118 " Our cadaver was older than my father, a smaller, brown-skinned man. His mouth was open in the same horrible way, as if it were the universal last act to try and fail to gasp a final breath. "
119 " There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you’d been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you’re suspended, knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself. It "
120 " Adirondack "