… down in the basement. There, in that big, cold, low-ceiling cinder-block room, which was my husband’s pride and joy for its uselessness…
lk 3
What You Are Looking for is in the Library vol 15
When you’re close to fifty, one hundred years doesn’t seem like an awfully long time. I almost feel I could live to a hundred and sixty if I try.
lk 186
The Year of Magical Thinking vol 1
… is that the death, even the sudden or accidental, “gives advance warning of its arrival.”
Rolandi laulust
lk 26
What You Are Looking for is in the Library vol 14
What are you looking for?
… I’m still searching. Searching for somewhere I can be accepted as I am. Just one place is all I need. Somewhere to be at peace.
lk 183
Careless People vol 1
Effort, productivity, and the sacrifice of everything else in life are valorized and fetishised.
lk 48
What You Are Looking for is in the Library vol 13
Things change, even if you want them to stay the same. At the same time, you can try to change, but you will still remain the same.
lk 137
The Lamb vol 12
What You Are Looking for is in the Library vol 12
I went with the flow and did what was easiest at the time to achieve what I wanted.
lk 136
The Lamb vol 11
I wondered if this was what being a real human was: accepting you were pieces of other people too. The people you loved and the people you hurt.
lk 292
What You Are Looking for is in the Library vol 11
You may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might save itself.
lk 136
Sellised väikesed asjad vol 10
… tema igapäevasest lahkusest, sellest, kuidas too oli Furlongit parandanud ja julgustanud, nendest väikestest asjadest, mida ta oli öelnud ja teinud ja keeldunud tegemast ja ütlemast ning mida ta oli ilmselt teadnud – asjadest, mis kokku arvatuna moodustasid elu.
lk 120
What You Are Looking for is in the Library vol 10
Life is one revelation after another. Things don’t always go to plan, no matter what your circumstances. But the flip side is all the unexpected, wonderful things that you could never have imagined happening. Ultimately it’s all for the best that many things don’t turn out the way we hoped. Try not to think of upset plans or schedules as personal failure or bad luck. If you can do that, then you can change, in your own self and in your life overall.
lk 131
The Lamb vol 10
What You Are Looking for is in the Library vol 9
Why is the parent who gives birth always expected to make the biggest career sacrifice?
lk 125
The Lamb vol 9
That’s the thing with babies, they’re destructive little things before they’re even out of you.
lk 230
