Martha Moody Quotes

#1. Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.

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#2. We were very ... anachronistic. The love that dared not speak its name.

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#3. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

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#4. It hit me then that my family is gone, really gone, and even though I have ll these kids, they'll never know my family, so in a way they'll never know me, because they don't know me with my family. I don't have a context for my children.

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#5. You adapt: the impossible becomes imaginable, thinkable, logical. Three easy steps. from Best Friends

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#6. When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities - that's about it.

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#7. You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.

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#8. He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

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