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Richard Russo Quote: “The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we’re left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.”

251. “The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we’re left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.”

252. “No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “We even discovered that our fathers had the same favorite saying: “Money talks. It says goodbye.”

253. “We even discovered that our fathers had the same favorite saying: “Money talks. It says goodbye.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “I’ve got Abba in my head,” she told him. “Make them go away.”

254. “I’ve got Abba in my head,” she told him. “Make them go away.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Like so many men who resent the authority of others, Big Jim hated for his own to be questioned.”

255. “Like so many men who resent the authority of others, Big Jim hated for his own to be questioned.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Like many fathers, Lincoln’s now had two permanent residences – one in Dunbar, Arizona, the other in his only son’s head.”

256. “Like many fathers, Lincoln’s now had two permanent residences – one in Dunbar, Arizona, the other in his only son’s head.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “He hadn’t even advised Peter about the existence of such women as this one he’d fallen in with, the kind who could make a man feel like something not quite a man and accomplish it in a way no other man, however jeering and contemptuous, could do.”

257. “He hadn’t even advised Peter about the existence of such women as this one he’d fallen in with, the kind who could make a man feel like something not quite a man and accomplish it in a way no other man, however jeering and contemptuous, could do.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “I just heard Mother in the bathroom,” she said, up on one elbow to smooth hair away from my forehead, a gentle, wonderful intimacy that took my breath away.”

258. “I just heard Mother in the bathroom,” she said, up on one elbow to smooth hair away from my forehead, a gentle, wonderful intimacy that took my breath away.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Here was a wish from another lifetime, granted twenty-five years too late, as if God were in a place so distant that it took almost forever for wishes to travel there, like pale starlight from a distant galaxy, eons old and all worn out even as we look at it. I.”

259. “Here was a wish from another lifetime, granted twenty-five years too late, as if God were in a place so distant that it took almost forever for wishes to travel there, like pale starlight from a distant galaxy, eons old and all worn out even as we look at it. I.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Over graduation weekend Jacy learned something about loneliness that she hadn’t suspected before: that its most terrifying and virulent form could only be experienced in a crowd.”

260. “Over graduation weekend Jacy learned something about loneliness that she hadn’t suspected before: that its most terrifying and virulent form could only be experienced in a crowd.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “A bicycle promises spring as surely as the hollowing out of melting snowbanks, the return of song birds, the first bright tulip bud.”

261. “A bicycle promises spring as surely as the hollowing out of melting snowbanks, the return of song birds, the first bright tulip bud.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “The one life we’re left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up. Blame love.”

262. “The one life we’re left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up. Blame love.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Since turning in his resignation, he’d been wondering what he might do next. Suddenly his path seemed clear. He would become an alcoholic. He.”

263. “Since turning in his resignation, he’d been wondering what he might do next. Suddenly his path seemed clear. He would become an alcoholic. He.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “What kind of town? What kind of country? What kind of people? If my father had been on the courthouse steps that day, he might have been able to summon his deeply held conviction that ours was a good town, a good country, and that we were good people, but I couldn’t think what to say, and Gabriel seemed grateful that things made no better sense to me than they did to him.”

264. “What kind of town? What kind of country? What kind of people? If my father had been on the courthouse steps that day, he might have been able to summon his deeply held conviction that ours was a good town, a good country, and that we were good people, but I couldn’t think what to say, and Gabriel seemed grateful that things made no better sense to me than they did to him.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Shush, Isobel,” the priest told her. “When such terrible things leave your tongue, they fly directly to God’s ear.” She had stood then and turned, peering into the darkness of the church for Sully, who had sunk down into his pew. “What difference?” she said. “God isn’t listening.”

265. “Shush, Isobel,” the priest told her. “When such terrible things leave your tongue, they fly directly to God’s ear.” She had stood then and turned, peering into the darkness of the church for Sully, who had sunk down into his pew. “What difference?” she said. “God isn’t listening.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “Golf was not a game he’d ever particularly wanted to take up. Nobody he liked had ever played golf, and a lot of the people he disliked intensely played all the time.”

266. “Golf was not a game he’d ever particularly wanted to take up. Nobody he liked had ever played golf, and a lot of the people he disliked intensely played all the time.”

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Richard Russo Quote: “When you tossed pebbles down from the embankment, they believed in God. One.”

267. “When you tossed pebbles down from the embankment, they believed in God. One.”

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