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1. "I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake." ~ Pam Houston

2. "Love gets bigger after forty," Fenton tells me. "After forty,, love says, 'Come one, come all." ~ Pam Houston

3. "Find yourself a place in the universe,' she said, 'a place where the dirt feels like goodness under your feet. Take the right picture and a man will walk into it. If you can bear him even a little, then for a while let him stay." ~ Pam Houston

4. "I still don't see how it would make me feel any better to think of the pain in my hip and spine as anything other than my most loyal and valuable companion, the continuous nonvoice in my ear that says, You got out alive and you still get to go." ~ Pam Houston

5. "...the purser has something resembling joy in her voice when she welcomes us to San Francisco. 'I probably don't need to tell you all to open the overhead bins with caution,' she says. 'If your contents haven't shifted, you must be carrying lead weights." ~ Pam Houston

6. "We are up in the attic doing a jigsaw puzzle, which may be the single fastest way one OCD person reveals herself to another." ~ Pam Houston

7. "what if you could have all the wisdom of a lifetime and still look like you looked when you were twenty-five''or what?' I say.'what, what' she says.I say, 'I thought we were playing Would You Rather...?'She twists her head like a dog at a foghorn. 'Marla,' I say, 'you get the wisdom because you don't anymore look like you did when you were twenty-five.'She says, 'You don't understand the rules to this game." ~ Pam Houston

8. "For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God.""It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor.""Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth." ~ Pam Houston

9. "I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves." ~ Pam Houston

10. "His name was Zeke, short for Ezekiel. She asked him if he was religious, he said only about certain things." ~ Pam Houston

11. "If a situation requires swearing to God it is — by definition — extreme." ~ Pam Houston

12. "When he says "Skins or blankets?" it will take you a moment to realized that he's asking which you want to sleep under. And in your hesitation he'll decide that he wants to see your skin wrapped in the big black moose hide. He carried it, he'll say, soaking wet and heavier than a dead man, across the tundra for two—was it hours or days or weeks? But the payoff, now, will be to see it fall across one of your white breasts. It's December, and your skin is never really warm, so you will pull the bulk of it around you and pose for him, pose for his camera, without having to narrate this moose's death." ~ Pam Houston

13. "Do you write novels?" I said."Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married." ~ Pam Houston

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