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“But now here the notes were, in his hands, bringing his secret life bursting into the present and reminding him of how happy he'd been each time he'd unfolded one of them. It was this happiness that had first inspired him to become a postman; in quite a simple way he'd thought that by delivering mail he'd get to spend his life making other people happy.”

Love Kindness Letters Happy Mail Delivery Young Love

Book:The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

Source: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“Yeah, but one thing I've learned is that if you try to do that, you never do put the past behind you - it just tags along in the present. And it burrows into you like some kind of poison. It's only by facing up to it and dealing with all the feelings it brings up that we can learn from it and move on.”

Life Growth Change Challenges Moving On

Book:The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

Source: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“And just as the scene around him would continue to change with every season, so too would he.”

Life Growth Change

Book:The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

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“In some ways I'm like a picture that hasn't been colored in yet. Or one that I'm still in the process of coloring in...”

Inspirational Change Growing

Book:The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

Source: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“Slowly, the gulf between who he was then and the man he'd become since was beginning to close. Have I really changed that much after all?”

Life Change Growing Up

Book:The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

Source: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“But he reminded himself that everyone was busy steering a course through their own dramas, that everyone was grappling with their own challenges in life. They're all busy coloring themselves in.”

Life Growth Challenges

Book:The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

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“As it was Monday, he was having sausage and mash. Tuesday was egg and chips, Wednesday and Thursday were cottage pie (he always made enough for two portions), and Friday was takeaway. Usually this was fish and chips, but sometimes he treated himself to pizza, and once he'd even had a curry - a chicken tikka, which he'd actually quite enjoyed.”

Book:The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

Source: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

“It’s so upsetting to think people could be so horrible to you, that they could want to hurt you, to just hack away at your happiness – and your own parents too. They’re supposed to be the ones who look after you and love you just the way you are. They’re supposed to want you to be happy.”

Society Abuse Parents Lgbt

Author:Matt Cain

“He looked like the kind of man people would call a ‘drink of water’. But he didn’t feel like that inside; inside he felt like he was a whole bundle of fun. Or at least I would be, if I could only work out a way of getting the fun out of me.”

Social Anxiety Being Ordinary

Book:The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

Source: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle