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1 " We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them. "
― Kristin Hannah , Between Sisters
2 " Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up. "
3 " If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” —LILY TOMLIN "
4 " Now, darlin’, you know that social etiquette is bred into us Southern girls.” “Oh, please. You’re as Southern as Tony Soprano.” Mama sniffed. “I swear, I should have left you by the side of the road in Wheeling, West Virginia.” “You did leave me there. "
5 " In the market, tourists were still crowded around the fish stand. White-aproned vendors threw thirty-pound king salmons through the air to one another: at every toss, tourists snapped photographs. "
6 " Claire knew she loved her daughter too much; it was dangerous to need another human being so desperately, but Claire had never known any other way to love. "
7 " After that, they got hot dogs at a frankfurter stand and walked down the wharf. At Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe they saw shrunken heads and Egyptian mummies and cheap souvenirs. (Meg didn’t point out the eight-foot-long petrified whale penis that hung suspended from the ceiling; she could just imagine what Ali would tell her friends.) "
8 " We can’t live other people’s lives for them. Even if we love them. "
9 " They were always doing that to each other, misinterpreting, imagining the worst. No wonder every conversation bruised one or the other. "
10 " We do not see things as they are,we see them as we are.” —ANAÏS NIN "
11 " Meg is planning your wedding? Honey, that’s like asking the pope to plan a bar mitzvah. "
12 " It’s too bad we don’t live life backward. I think it was Kierkegaard who said that. "
13 " hope felt like a borrowed sweater that didn’t quite fit. "
14 " Talking about Meghann’s painful choice and the lonely years that had followed it wouldn’t help. Her past wasn’t a collection of memories to be worked through; it was like an oversize Samsonite with a bum wheel. "
15 " It was a gray, not-quite-rainy day, the kind where the sky was so low it seemed to bump you in the forehead when you dared to venture outside. "
16 " it’s always about family. The past has an irritating way of becoming the present. "
17 " Sooner or later, Meg, it’s always about family. The past has an irritating way of becoming the present. "
18 " Bullies were bullies; their defining characteristic was the need to exert power over the powerless. Who was more powerless than a child? "
19 " Don’t screw with Baldie. "
20 " she’d pull him into her arms and hold him so tightly, he’d remember how it felt to be loved. "
