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Category: Jennifer Haigh

But his singing was unconscious and irrepressible – an expression of his native exuberance, the dreamy, buoyant soundtrack running through his head.

expression, joy, song

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives…he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

inspirational, thought-provoking

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

affection, duration, friendship, life, loyalty

Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.

destiny, life-lessons

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

alternate-truths, families, narrators, perspective, religion, secrets

I open my heart to her and lay it on the table.

faith, family-secrets, mothers-and-daughers, religion

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

brothers, companionship, family, growing-up, secrets, sisters

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

brothers, companionship, family, growing-up, secrets, sisters

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

alternate-truths, families, narrators, perspective, religion, secrets

I open my heart to her and lay it on the table.

faith, family-secrets, mothers-and-daughers, religion