Han Nolan Quotes

#1. Honestly, I'm just so fed up with you. I'm at my wits' end.'
Since my mother is always at her wits' end, I'm surprised she had any wits left.

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#2. Our survival depends on not just what we can get in life but also what we can give

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#3. And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.

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#4. I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don't think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it's lonely, and I don't want to be lonely. I don't want to be alone.

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#5. If you love someone, you stand by him, forever, no matter what.

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#6. Jason you can't control the universe and everything that happens in it, but you can control your reaction to it. You can control you, and how you choose to live each day.

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#7. And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.

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#8. Good for you, Jason. It's perfectly natural to be angry with your mother for dying. Everybody who loses someone special goes through that. It's just part of the grieving process.

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#9. For the first time in my life, I felt a gentleness, a softness in the unfolding of each day.

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#10. We sit huddled together for a few minutes, just being there with one another, and it feels dangerous to me that nobody is saying anything.

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#11. When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice

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#12. I stepped back and looked at all the people as they continued to weave in and out, around and around, faster and faster until they were one blur, until they were One. And then I knew what Bubbe meant. Here, was God.

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#13. If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.

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#14. I reached out and placed my hand on the book and thought maybe someday I wouldn't need the bruises or the scars anymore. Maybe someday it would be all right for the scars to go away.

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#15. I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe.

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#16. We just have to accept that life is perfectly imperfect.

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#17. How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told with honesty and heart, held me in my seat to the very end. I have discovered a new favorite writer in Christine MacLean.

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#18. I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.

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