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1. "A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created." ~ Rachel Simon

2. "Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to." ~ Rachel Simon

3. "A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad." ~ Rachel Simon

4. "She felt so lovely in his hands. She felt so loved in his eyes." ~ Rachel Simon

5. "A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad." ~ Rachel Simon

6. "Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again." ~ Rachel Simon

7. "He thought that maybe when you're making your way forward into your life, it just looks higgledy-piggledy, the way, if you were a fly walking across one of Beautiful Girl's drawings all you'd be able to see was green, then blue, then yellow. Only if you got in the air before the swat came down would you see the colors belonged to a big drawing, with the green for this part of the picture, the blue and yellow for others, every color being just where if was meant to be. Could that be what life was?" ~ Rachel Simon

8. "she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see" ~ Rachel Simon

9. "Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had." ~ Rachel Simon

10. "...she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess." ~ Rachel Simon

11. "But never had come first." ~ Rachel Simon

12. "Yes, we can all cart our fractured selves along as we move through our lives. But we can choose whether we keep plodding along the same rutted road, or take a turn we'd never thought was ours to take." ~ Rachel Simon

13. "Well, ain't that just the way of the world. Everything come to an end, whether you wants it to or not. All that nature out there: over. The Snare: dead and gone. Even a love that make a man giddy and romantic, that give him a hope and joy he never known, that brave him into taking a slingshot to the impossible and bringing it almost complete to its knees -- even a love like that come to an end. Life just ashes to ashes and dust to dust. And there is nothing you can do about it neither. (Homan)" ~ Rachel Simon

14. "Then," he says, "as my mind got functioning, everything was just beautiful. There was no right or wrong feeling, no social pressure. I believe that's what heaven's going to be like..."p 55" ~ Rachel Simon

15. "Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few minutes, a few miles. Companions on the road, sharing our air and our view, our feet swaying to the same beat. Then you get off at your stop, or I get off at mine. Unless we decide to stay on longer together.p 251" ~ Rachel Simon

16. "But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside...p 292" ~ Rachel Simon

17. "When change happened to an individual, it happened to everyone around her - sometimes in ways she wished for, though sometimes in ways she wished against"Lynnie p 228-229" ~ Rachel Simon

18. "He could not talk himself out of pain any longer. He had no one to be strong for. So finally, he cried. He cried with deep sobs, head bent to the ground, palms pressed to his eyes. He cried so hard that sorrow rushed out of his face. He cried until he felt like the sea." ~ Rachel Simon

19. "I realize, as the tightness yields in my shoulders and hips and feet, that Beth might well have wanted me to meet her drivers because I needed them, too."p 167" ~ Rachel Simon

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