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“When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been.”

Book:A Partial History of Lost Causes

Source: A Partial History of Lost Causes

“That's an applicable life less, my boy,' he'd said. 'Nobody is really paying attention to you. Most people don't really get this. They think they must count more to other people than other people count to them. They can't believe the disregard could truly be mutual.”

Book:Cartwheel

Source: Cartwheel

“Well, we spent enough on gymnastics.' 'Christ, did we,' said Maureen. 'So many lessons.' So many lessons, it was true: art and music and ice-skating; Lily's every fleeting interest enthusiastically, abundantly indulged. Not to mention the many more practical investments--chemistry tutoring when she struggled, English enrichment when she excelled, SAT courses to propel her to the school and then, presumably, the career of her dreams. What costs had been sunk, what objections had been suppressed, to deliver their daughter into the open and waiting arms of her beautiful life.”

Sacrifice Parenting Entitlement

Book:Cartwheel

Source: Cartwheel

“It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.”

Reality Possibility Murder Bewilderment

Author:Jennifer duBois

“I yawned, which is my cover for everything.”

Yawning Social Inadequacy

Book:A Partial History of Lost Causes

Source: A Partial History of Lost Causes