"What do you do when the story changes……" — Gail Caldwell
"What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed."
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24 Quotes by Gail Caldwell
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The flaw is the thing we love.
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The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
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The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.
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The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to…
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Grief is what tells you who you are alone.
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I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.
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I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often…
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Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it…
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