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““Having a daughter whose company he actually enjoyed was one of his favorite accomplishments.””

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“Now whenever Franny or Jim spoke to someone who kept a car in Manhattan, they reacted with quiet horror, like people who’d been subjected…

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“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self…

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“Having a daughter whose company he actually enjoyed was one of Jim’s favorite accomplishments. The odds were against you, in all matters of family…

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“Once Charles arrived, Franny would start laughing the way she had when she was twenty-four, and the rest of them could start setting one…

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“Teenagers and younger children did not need to sit in business class, let alone first—that was Franny’s philosophy. The extra room was for people…

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“What were parents anyway, except two people who had once thought they were the smartest people in the world? They were a delusional species,…

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“It's a rental," I said, realizing when I said it that our house was the only rental on the block. Maybe something unseemly had…

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“Timing was everything—that was more and more obvious the older you got, when you finally understood that the universe wasn’t held together in any way that made sense. There was no order, there was no plan. It was all about what you’d had for breakfast, and what kind of mood you were in when you walked down a certain hallway,…

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“to be a hypocrite or a liar? Jim wasn’t”

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“Elizabeth was happy in her marriage, she really was. It was just that sometimes she thought about all the experiences she’d never gotten to have, and all the nights she’d listened to the sound of her husband’s snores, and wanted to jump out a window and go home with the first person who talked to her. Choices were easy to…

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“It was crazy, what young people believed was possible, what so many earnest twenty-three-year-olds took for granted about the rest of their lives.”

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“...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got…

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