“This is what I've found about life, as I've gotten older: you start to lose people, Angela. It's not that there is ever a shortage of people - oh, heavens no. It is merely that - as the years pass - there comes to be a shortage of your people. The ones you loved. The ones who knew the people that you both loved. The ones who know your whole history. Those people start to be plucked away by death, and they are awfully hard to replace after they go.”
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“It’s not really a mystery except it’s always a mystery about people.”
“No one is ever exactly who they claim to be, but some people are closer than others.”
“People often underestimate their blessings and overestimate their challenges”
“Maturity is when you start giving importance to quality in people than the number of them.”