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Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?…Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts….They’re the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind.” “Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our ordinary moments. They’re with us in the grocery store, as we turn the corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.” “The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.

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I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

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I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

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I love you,” he writes again and again. “I can’t bear to live without you. I’m counting the minutes until I see you.” The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.

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I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.

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I’ve come to think that’s what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

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One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you’re constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

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She knows too well what it’s like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb….The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don’t really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you’re lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you’re broken inside.

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Time constricts and flattens, you know. It’s not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.

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You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

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Quotes by Christina Baker Kline

Christina Baker Kline

I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

I never want to feel constrained by writing a novel for a specific audience.

I’ve come to think that’s what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you’re constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It’s not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

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