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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
Her faith that love was everything in the end, even if it was an imperfect love, a love that depended on memory, on some former version of who they
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him- or herself. The more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her.
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
He was forty-five
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
She had made a choice and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
A child had no choice but to forgive.
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
Each of Nora's children had arrived on this earth as him or herself, the more she knew them, the more she felt it to be true. They were so different from one another, and from her.
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.
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Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life. Your hopes, your happiness, your luck, your moods, all yoked to his.
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
She could come up with a hundred reasons why now wasn't the time, why home was not a place one went for a visit.
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
It was so nice to be on the cusp of parenthood, to be able to judge other people's choices with confidence, not yet having made any mistakes of their own.
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J. Courtney Sullivan _ Saints for All Occasions
Think of a marriage, husband and wife. The piece of paper, the white wedding dress, they don't promise anything. A person has to stay there, fight for it, every day.
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