33 Quotes by Adrienne Brodeur
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His response was incomprehensible to me. How could you not want to know...Wasn't curiosity a simple fact of human nature?
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Did I want meat or fish for dinner? I couldn't decide. Hair up or down? Either. Would I prefer to walk or bike? Neither. I wanted to sleep. It felt as if in making any inconsequential decision, I might choose wrongly and forever close a door; there would go my other life.
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Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene.
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It was as if a lifetime's worth of emotional chutes and trapdoors installed for self-protection decades ago had malfunctioned in a spectacular way.
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Blink, and you’ll miss your treasure. Blink again, and you’ll realize that the truth you thought was completely hidden, has materialized some ungainly part of it revealed under new conditions.
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I know that no one’s story is simple. And no single story tells the whole truth.
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Deception takes commitment, vigilance, and a very good memory. To keep the truth buried, you must tend to it. For years and years, my job was to pile on sand – fistfuls, shovelfuls, bucketfuls, whatever the moment necessitated – in an effort to keep my mother’s secret buried.
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All I knew at that moment was I felt lucky. My mother had chosen me, and, together, we were embarking on a great adventure.
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I felt as if I were watching myself from above, unable to comprehend the happiness of the people around me.
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