Laura McHugh Quotes

#1. It occurred to her then that there was a reason age drained the pleasure out of life, slowly stripping away all the things you enjoyed or took for granted. It was so you wouldn't need convincing when the time came. You'd be ready, because everything good in life was gone.

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#2. ... nostalgia was once thought to be a mental illness or a physical affliction; for me, it was both.

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#3. ...my mom always telling me that a man with clean nails hides his dirt on the inside.

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#4. Nobody special had come around to replace Duane, and she was moping, going to bed alone every night with a box of Velveeta and a fork.

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#5. You grow up feeling the weight of blood, of family. There's no forsaking kin. But you can't help when kin forsakes you or when strangers come to be family.

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#6. But there was always so much we didn't know about people, lurking right below the surface where we couldn't see it.

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#7. I hadn't taken into account how a place becomes part of you, claims you for its own.

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#8. I'd told the condensed version of my life story so many times over the years that I could recite it without emotion. When I said the words out loud, they felt like they belonged to someone else.

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#9. Just because you don't see the devil doesn't mean he isn't there. He doesn't carry a pitchfork. He hides in plain sight.

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#10. I was starting to think you were one kind of person until a situation arose that required you to be something else.

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#11. I took in the thick night air, the sweet smell of honeysuckle, the chirping of frogs, to impress the moment in the folds of my memory, preserve it like a flower between pages of a book. To remember: This is how it feels to be happy.

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#12. Gabby was right that we all had secrets, secrets that would hurt other people or expose us in ways we didn't want to be exposed.

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