Helen Brown Quotes

#1. You'd know if you were [a cat person]. It's like being a Christian or a Muslim. You just KNOW when you are one.

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#2. Great joy doesn't obliterate grief. Both can be encompassed at the same time.

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#3. It didn't seem the right time to tell him where the worst monsters hide. They conceal themselves cleverly inside our heads and wait for the moments we're at our most vulnerable - bedtime, or when we're sick or anxious.

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#4. The past five years had informed me about human sorrow. While no two griefs are the same, nobody understands suffering like those who've been there.

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#5. Her observation skills were astringent enough to qualify as an ingredient for aftershave.

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#6. I was in love with Philip, but had ongoing proof that romantic love is like a swimming pool. People fall into it and scramble out of it wet and disheveled, usually in one piece but damaged, all the time.

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#7. After a lifetime of enabling others, surely she'd earned the right to make her own choices, no matter how outlandish?

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#8. A cat chooses its owner, not the other way around.

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