Jamie Ford Quotes

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• As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.
• But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how…
• The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.
• Hope can get you through anything.
• He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
• He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.
• Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But…
• I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me
• Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect.…
• Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you…
• Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that…
• I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second…
• There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our…
• A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a…
• I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home.
• After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.
• It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.
• The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

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