Top 30 Mccreight Quotes
#2. Sure I can handle waiting for more bad news." "I know, Kate, and I'm sorry." His voice
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#3. In order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection. E. M. Forster
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#4. One of the things that was great about my mom, as a mom, was that she always knew when she was being kind of ridiculous.
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#5. Not everything about where you're headed ... has to be about where you've been.
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#6. Happy was my adopted country, not my native land. I was still bracing to be expelled without warning.
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#7. I can live with you hating me for that. I'll have to. I can even live with you not hating him. Just dont forgive him, Molly-not all the way. He doesn't deserve that. And neither do you.
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#8. And as much as Justin valued the clarity of my black and white, I'd been intoxicated by his world of grays.
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#9. This was what happened when you spent months locked away from the world: you regressed.
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#10. Well, if it's for a paper, then my honest answer is that I think sororities are bad. I think they're terrible, actually. I think they make girls feel awful about themselves under the guise of sisterhood.
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#11. But some things you can't outrun, no matter how fast you move your legs.
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#12. That woman could raise her children in whatever substandard fashion she saw fit, but how dare she let the consequences of her casual neglect injure someone else's.
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#14. Barbara had stopped by the PTA office to talk to some of the mothers there, and she may have said a thing or two about Rhea in angen And she /na! not have been careful about who was around listening. Had it been one of Rheas fellow teachers? Or, God forbid, Rhea herself?
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#15. Sometimes, it feels like he's trying to rebuild our lives out of matchsticks. And I do love him for that. But loving someone isn't the same thing as understanding them.
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#16. Contrary to previous assumptions, maternal depression can also manifest in a myriad of ways, many far different from what some might consider traditional depressive symptoms, including psychosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other anxiety disorders.
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#19. Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall
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#20. [E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time ... As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked.
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#21. It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia's mother - the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be.
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#23. Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.
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#25. Articles about things weren't the same thing as stories I'd made up. Those I wasn't ready for the world to pick apart, not yet.
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#27. Because there are 176 definitions for the word loser.
Don't Be a Statistic.
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#28. But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on paper. That I had gone through other things before-good and terrible, funny and awful-and I had survived.
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#30. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been counting the minutes until I could forgive her. But it's a lot harder to forgive someone who's not looking to apologize.
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