Benedict Freedman Quotes

#1. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.

Benedict Freedman

#2. When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.

Benedict Freedman

#3. Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I do when I gather in the ends of my thread to make a knot.

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#4. She's a gray woman with gray sayings."
"A crape-hanger.

Benedict Freedman

#5. I felt afraid. No one would know that, not Mother and not Mike. I'd keep the fear pushed down inside of me, and no one would know it was there. "I'm awfully happy," I wrote. I was. Awfully happy and awfully in love, and tomorrow I was marrying Mike.

Benedict Freedman

#6. I turned my face to the sky and laughed because the things you enjoy can't hurt you.

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#7. But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.

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#8. I woke myself up to make sure I wasn't dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn't want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. "Don't waste 'em, kitten.

Benedict Freedman