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21 " Then he told David, in a confiding tone, “I’m scared of banana threads, too.” “Banana threads. I see. Well, I can understand that,” David said. He couldn’t help feeling honored. "
― Anne Tyler , French Braid
22 " 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. And now "
23 " that the quality you marry a person for will end up being what you hate them for, most often. "
24 " There were no captions. Once the subjects’ identities must have seemed so obvious; it hadn’t occurred to the album’s creator that the time would come when no one alive remembered them. "
25 " Mothers hate beards. "
26 " They certainly didn’t resemble the people you pictured when you saw those don’t kill mee-maw signs urging masks and social distancing "
27 " You can never take it for granted that family members will like each other. "