Lee Martin Quotes

#1. Is it too late?" I asked Margot Cherry that afternoon. It's been more than thirty years and still I can remember how my voice shook. "How do we know when we've loved someone all that we can?

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#2. Life had gone on. It always did. that's what you learned as you got older. Time. It kept moving. You wished you could change. They were gone. They left you in a snap.

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#3. You can pretend that your life is going on when really, all along, you're trapped in a moment you'll never be able to change.

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#4. I knew if I sat there another minute, I'd never be able to get beyond everything that was going to happen from that day on. My life would disappear inside his. So I got up.

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#5. [sic]Keep looking up, Mama used to tell me. There's nothing on the ground but your feet.

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#6. Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence. The way one sentence follows another, if we pay attention to syntax and rhythm, should express the final effect we want the narrative to have on a reader.

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#7. Some folks can't hide things. They don't have enough, not enough money or influence or shame.

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#8. The only thing I know now is that we're all connected, everyone of us, even people we don't know.

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#9. ... in a snap the world can fall down around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.

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