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1. "I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!" ~ Judith Guest
2. "Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me." ~ Judith Guest
3. "I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired." ~ Judith Guest
4. "I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw." ~ Judith Guest
5. "It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it." ~ Judith Guest
6. "My success is not who I am." ~ Judith Guest
7. "People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile." ~ Judith Guest
8. "With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am." ~ Judith Guest
9. "I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am." ~ Judith Guest
10. "People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety." ~ Judith Guest
11. "Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness." ~ Judith Guest
12. "Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you." ~ Judith Guest
13. "To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind" ~ Judith Guest
14. "She hands him his coffee; crosses to the doorway; motes of dust flutter nervously in her wake." ~ Judith Guest
15. "Make notes—I've lost more material than I've ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it's not still up there in one's brain. It's in outer space and it ain't coming back." ~ Judith Guest
16. "Eyes closed a knee in his back hand at his neck forcing his face into the floor of the elevator rough under his cheek smell of vomit and matted fur "God don't hurt me" struggles against indignity his pajamas pulled down around his knees a needle sunk deep into his thigh twists moans and all of it loose like water flowing salt tickles inner edges of his eyes into his mouth twists onto his back arms over his head raw wails of anguish break off in pieces hurt his ears "Baby it's okay" Leo is over him lifts coaxing "Let's get up off the floor huh?" arm around his waist sags heavy his wrist aches where Leo holds him dragged along the watery dark he rolls off Leo's shoulder to the bed eyes closed hands folded in prayer between his legs can't look "God don't hurt me. Please." ~ Judith Guest
17. "Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion." ~ Judith Guest
18. "...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together..." ~ Judith Guest
19. "And what about tomorrow then? And all the tomorrows to come? Why can't we talk about it? Why can't we ever talk about it?" ~ Judith Guest
20. "I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either." ~ Judith Guest
21. "Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling." ~ Judith Guest

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Be damned if I do. Be damned if I don't. Whatever I do, I can't do right by him."
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