Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.
Jamie Ford
He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
hope
Hope can get you through anything.
The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.
choices
He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.
family
Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.
heartbreak
loneliness
I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.
past present chances missing wanting
I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me.
past
Loyalty. We're still loyal to the United States of America. Why? Because we too are Americans. We don't agree, but we will show our loyalty by our obedience.
loyalty
If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something wrong.
interview
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