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41 " Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair. "
― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton
42 " True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal. "
43 " I want to know how it feels to be altered by life "
44 " She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside. "
45 " It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free. "
46 " It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known. "
47 " There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliable; with nothing to anchor them, there is nothing to stop them drifting in opposite directions. If it is string that binds, it will eventually snap and the points will separate; if elastic, they will continue to part, further and further, until the strain reaches its limit and they are pulled back with such speed that they cannot help but collide with devastating force. "
48 " In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments. "
49 " But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists. "
50 " While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future. "
51 " I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet. "
52 " But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides,' she said. 'It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. "
53 " It is a universal truth that no matter how well one knows a scene, to observe it from above is something of a revelation. "
54 " But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. "
55 " Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . . "
56 " I understood somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost. "
57 " I am beginning to feel at home in the past and a visitor to this strange and blanched experience we agree to call the present "
58 " But of course, those who live in memories are never really dead "
59 " It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different.""Not a mystery."Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing. "
60 " Creatures that grow up in the wilderness turn out wild. "