As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.
Elizabeth BrundageStichwörter: life-and-living
His life in general had been a neatly wrapped package of lies.
Elizabeth BrundageStichwörter: living-a-lie
Adults make mistakes too.
Elizabeth BrundageStichwörter: human-nature
Too many choices, that's the problem. Sometimes you get to a point, you know?"
She looked at his face. His eyes seemed distant. "What do you mean?"
He shook his head. "You wake up one day and nothing's the same. It's like you're in the wrong life or something. I don't know how to explain it.
Stichwörter: life-lessons
But you couldn't really start over. That was a huge, modern lie invented by talk-show hosts. Sure you could change things that improved your life, but all the bad stuff lingered. It lingered in your body compromising your organs.
Elizabeth BrundageStichwörter: the-past
I often ask the question: Is it impossible to have a simple life?
The world is not simple, Claire said.
The world is not simple. Joe repeated the phrase like the line of a great poem.
Stichwörter: life world complex
People wanted to be redeemed, she thought. Everyone did. We're only human.
Elizabeth BrundageStichwörter: redemption saved
She cried and he held her and he cried too. He didn't think that either could say what they were crying about, but it was something they needed to do, right now, together, and then, quite suddenly, they were laughing, hard, brash laughter that came up from someplace deep.
Elizabeth BrundageStichwörter: healing-the-past emotions-love
Wooed by a vivid cover, she picked one up and leafed through it. She loved thee way it smelled, the ink, the fine paper, the oversized photographs.
Elizabeth BrundageStichwörter: book-lovers bookstore book-shelves
There was the dream of happiness and then there was what was real.
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