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> [“He is wearing an old overcoat from the Salvation Army in Easton, Pennsylvania. It cost five bucks ten years ago, Louise remembers. Henry is not interested so much in the bargain, he wants ghosts in his clothes. He likes wondering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/he-is-wearing-an-old-overcoat-from-the-salvation-army-in-easton/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

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## More by Abigail Thomas

> [“The past is in the wastebasket.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/the-past-is-in-the-wastebasket/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“Forget career, forget the future, forget existential worries, just get yourselves a couple of dogs, and everything will be all right.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/forget-career-forget-the-future-forget-existential-worries-just-get/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/there-are-those-people-who-can-eat-one-piece-of-chocolate-one-piece/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“There is nothing like calamity for refreshing the moment. Ironically, the last several years my life had begun to feel shapeless, like underwear with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/there-is-nothing-like-calamity-for-refreshing-the-moment-ironically/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“Part of what I've learned is that if it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/part-of-what-i-ve-learned-is-that-if-it-isn-t-life-and-death-it-isn-t/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“He is wearing an old overcoat from the Salvation Army in Easton, Pennsylvania. It cost five bucks ten years ago, Louise remembers. Henry is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/he-is-wearing-an-old-overcoat-from-the-salvation-army-in-easton/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“Take any ten years of your life, reduce them to two pages, and every sentence has to be three words long. It's a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/take-any-ten-years-of-your-life-reduce-them-to-two-pages-and-every/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“Is memory property? If two people remember something differently is one of them wrong?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/is-memory-property-if-two-people-remember-something-differently-is/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“Good things happen slowly,” said a doctor in the ICU months ago, “and bad things happen fast.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/good-things-happen-slowly-said-a-doctor-in-the-icu-months-ago-and-bad/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“A friend's mother ate nothing but clams for six months. Morning, noon, and night, nothing but clams. 'I don't know what it is -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/a-friend-s-mother-ate-nothing-but-clams-for-six-months-morning-noon/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“...but they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/but-they-were-writers-and-writers-suggest-things-just-to-see-what/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/for-better-or-for-worse-but-not-for-lunch/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“She would (if she could) put her arm around the girl she'd been and try to tell her Take it easy, but the girl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/she-would-if-she-could-put-her-arm-around-the-girl-she-d-been-and-try/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“Well now I know I can control my tongue, my temper & my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/well-now-i-know-i-can-control-my-tongue-my-temper-my-appetites-but/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

> [“Shopping is hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-thomas/shopping-is-hope/)

[Abigail Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-thomas/)

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