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French Braid QUOTES

French Braid QUOTES

1 " Oh, a French braid,” Greta said. “That’s it. And then when she undid them, her hair would still be in ripples, little leftover squiggles, for hours and hours afterward.” “Yes…” “Well,” David said, “that’s how families work, too. You think you’re free of them, but you’re never really free; the ripples are crimped in forever. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

2 " Wasn’t it amazing how resilient people were, how they persisted, how they kept trying to connect! "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

3 " So maybe parenthood was meant to be educational, Robin thought—a lesson for the parents on totally other styles of being. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

4 " Sometimes people live first one life and then another life,” her grandmother said. “First a family life and then later a whole other kind of life. That’s what I’m doing. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

5 " French Braid reveals the gentle realities of family ties that constrict and those that fall apart altogether, while the daily hum of diligence and possibility reverberates in the background. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

6 " Consider the gene pool,” she told him. “This country was settled by dissidents and malcontents and misfits and adventurers. Thorny people. They don’t always follow the etiquette. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

7 " There were advantages to being a girl and having nothing much expected of you. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

8 " Morris. Mercy filed the name in her memory. So many unexpected people seemed to edge into a person’s life, once that person had children. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

9 " Two losses, in fact. Two very dear children: Emily and Nicholas. It was true that these days there happened to be two very dear grown-ups who were also named Emily and Nicholas, but they weren’t the same people. It was just as if those children had died. He’d been in mourning ever since. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

10 " So many unexpected people seemed to edge into a person’s life, once that person had children. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

11 " This country was settled by dissidents and malcontents and misfits and adventurers. Thorny people. They don’t always follow the etiquette. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

12 " This is what families do for each other—hide a few uncomfortable truths, allow a few self-deceptions. Little kindnesses.” “And little cruelties,” he said. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

13 " You would think this realization would come as a relief to him. And it did, in part. He felt a rush of love for his whole family, whom it seemed he had underestimated. He had thought that guarding his secret was a kindness to them; he was protecting them from knowledge that would hurt them. But now he saw that not telling them had been more hurtful, and it was they who had been kind. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

14 " What nobody understood about David, with the possible exception of Greta, was that he had suffered a very serious loss in his life. Two losses, in fact. Two very dear children: Emily and Nicholas. It was true that these days there happened to be two very dear grown-ups who were also named Emily and Nicholas, but they weren’t the same people. It was just as if those children had died. He’d been in mourning ever since. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

15 " So, this is how it works,” she said. “This is what families do for each other—hide a few uncomfortable truths, allow a few self-deceptions. Little kindnesses. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

16 " So, this is how it works,” she said. “This is what families do for each other—hide a few uncomfortable truths, allow a few self-deceptions. Little kindnesses.” “And little cruelties,” he said. “And little cruelties,” she agreed, and she swung his hand between "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

17 " Because if you’re going to do someone a favor, her father used to tell her, you might as well do it graciously. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

18 " Oh, the lengths this family would go to so as not to spoil the picture of how things were supposed to be! "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

19 " It all happened so fast, she thought, even though it had seemed endless at the time. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid

20 " In fact Alice was surprised to hear that her father had even noticed whether David went into the water or not, because he and Bentley liked to stand waist-deep with their arms folded across their chests and talk about sewage or something. "

― Anne Tyler , French Braid