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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
People
Celestial
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong they pass each other and keep running.
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How plotless real life was!
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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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