Carrie Snyder Quotes

#1. Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.

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#2. When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.

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#3. Under every layer of pain, another layer of recovery lies in wait, the sweet, forever surprising truth of endurance.

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#4. Hockey is a violent sport that rewards angry men and boys. Ringette is an unsolved feminine mystery.

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#5. A short list of things to fear: the hills opening up, automatic weaponry, macho posturing, stepping on a mine, thrown into the air, engulfed in flames, ambush. What Juliet fears: snakes.

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#6. People we love do disappoint us (...). We don't have to love them less for it. Maybe we have to love them more.

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#7. Life is nothing like a choose your own adventure. Except for when it is, in its randomness: a cancer sell splitting and spreading ruthlessly within the bloodstream; a storm raising on a deadly lake. Except for when it is, in the way the ending changes - in memory in meaning father than substance.

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#8. You can die of sadness? thinks Juliet; the idea encrusts a soft centre of pure terror.

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#9. Ancient fame carries a whiff of notoriety. People forget,or no longer care. One grows into another version of loneliness.

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#10. How is life a shaped? By parentage, siblings, calss and religion, by schooling, vocational choices, by friends, partnerships, children, by place and time, by illness and accident, and sometimes, but most rarely, by surprising choice.

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