Liz Rosenberg Quotes

#1. I learned for the first time that when we lose the people closest to us, we tend to become more like them - as if to fill immediately the unbearable lack they have left behind.

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#2. Let's agree right here at the outset that memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.

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#3. Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

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#4. The secret to those who write is that they come to the art simply because they cannot speak.

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#5. Nonsense," Bridget said. "The secret to happiness is freedom - and the secret to freedom is courage.

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#6. These secrets came down my own ornately curved and twisting family line. For family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true.

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#7. People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition ... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes.

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#8. But it was no use. I had the kind of heart that would always be breaking.

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#9. I am remembering it now.

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#10. The purpose of family is to preserve life,' Aunt Patti said. 'We treat family members the way we're supposed to treat everyone on the planet.

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#11. If you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.

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#12. The one sure thing in this life is change. That is the one thing you may rely upon.

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