Carolina Quotes...it was in her refusal to allow any of us to indulge in self-pity of any kind...through a maddening style of argument, in which the following three statements were repeated in various sequences: A. It's your life + social commentary. B. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. C. No one ever said that life was fair.
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Nicholas Sparks about his mother Jill Sparks, Chapter 8, p. 127
- work
- Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)
- year
- 2004
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- p. 127
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