Jennifer Ryan Quotes

#1. She didn't say anything, just a long, quiet "shhhh," as if she had learned that the troubles of the world could be absorbed and deafened by slow, steady wistfulness, and I suddenly understood that she'd been silencing the noise for the past twenty years.

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#2. Then I looked out onto the horizon myself and realized that loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening. How resilient human beings are that we can learn slowly to carry on when we are left all alone, left to fill the void as best we can. Or disappear into it.

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#3. He didn't want to be one more burden, but the person who held her up, the soft place she fell, the reason she endured and was happy.

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#4. I took a deep breath of the syrupy sweetness of summer, suffused with bees and birds, and I thought to myself how beautiful this world can be. How lucky we are to be here, to be part of it, for however long we have.

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#5. You need to find where you fit in this world, where you are happiest, where you can make a difference. And don't be afraid of change.

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#6. her body moving steadily with his, not a bit of self-conscious shyness or reservation in her movements. He ran his hands over both her breasts, sat up and took one hard nipple into his mouth.

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#7. If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

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#8. Music takes us out of ourselves, away from our worries and tragedies, helps us look into a different world, a bigger picture. All those cadences and beautiful chord changes, every one of them makes you feel a different splendor of life.

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#9. you had sex with a viper,

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#10. Human nature defeats me sometimes, how greed and spite can lurk so divisively around the utmost courage and sacrifice.

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#11. That's the same thing I imagine every parent faces when they have a child. You'll be great, Kate. Because it matters to you, you'll do your best to be everything he needs.

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#12. And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile kindness in their love that survived through this poisonous war. Even though one of them hadn't.

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#13. That's what a real family does, right? You're accepted no matter what. You're included every time you show up. That's how it should be.

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