Meg Waite Clayton - Typewriter Beach
‘It’s what people do when it comes down to it, good people: they help each other,’” he told Isabella. “That’s what Madame Chazan told me. ‘We do it in memory of those we loved and could not help.’
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Then his father said he was sorry he would have to give up his schooling and his friends, but he would have the run of his father's library, he should spend at least five hours each day reading whatever he chose, learning whatever he wanted to.
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It's always a risk, loving someone: you lose them one way or you lose them another, or they lose you. But unless you take the risk, you lose at the beginning, without the benefit of loving or being loved.
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Who do I belong to now?