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> [“When I returned, I never once walked past the house where my mother, aunt, and I lved together...It was as if the past would judge me. The house would judge me. That merely looking at it would somehow cause me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/when-i-returned-i-never-once-walked-past-the-house-where-my-mother/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

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## More by Howard Norman

> [“There’s a Russian proverb: To taste the ocean, all you need is one gulp.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/there-s-a-russian-proverb-to-taste-the-ocean-all-you-need-is-one-gulp/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“These broadcasts were of varied content. But all of them took the United States and Canada to task for their anti-Semitism, for not being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/these-broadcasts-were-of-varied-content-but-all-of-them-took-the/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“When I returned, I never once walked past the house where my mother, aunt, and I lved together...It was as if the past would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/when-i-returned-i-never-once-walked-past-the-house-where-my-mother/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/i-can-only-repeat-what-i-say-to-myself-day-and-night-i-expect-nothing/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“The thing unspoken often settles most bitterly in the heart”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/the-thing-unspoken-often-settles-most-bitterly-in-the-heart/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/my-mother-and-alexis-had-said-no-more-than-ten-words-to-each-other/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“Everything I loved most happened most every day.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/everything-i-loved-most-happened-most-every-day/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that's only each other's to give”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/friendship-is-provisional-you-have-to-keep-earning-it-back-and-forth/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“I went into the kitchen. My mother joined us there, Margaret threw back three shots in a row. "Oh yes, to be sure, Margaret…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/i-went-into-the-kitchen-my-mother-joined-us-there-margaret-threw-back/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/when-thinking-harshly-on-the-human-condition-as-i-so-often-do-my/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“Early on July 2, 1911, my father left with Lambert Charibon for Anticosti Island. Shortly after supper on the same day, my mother took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/early-on-july-2-1911-my-father-left-with-lambert-charibon-for/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/what-good-is-intelligence-akutagawa-asked-if-you-can-t-ever-discover/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“In The Highland Book of Platitudes , Marlais, there's an entry that reads, "Not all ghosts earn our memory in equal measure." I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/in-the-highland-book-of-platitudes-marlais-there-s-an-entry-that/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

> [“I bet he's hightailed it into Canada. Somewhere into Canada." "Let me put it this way. Basically, there's Canada and there's the United States…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-norman/i-bet-he-s-hightailed-it-into-canada-somewhere-into-canada-let-me-put/)

[Howard Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-norman/)

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