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Every Last One (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Anna Quindlen (Author) (edit contributors)

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In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential actions.   Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a... read more

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  • “This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.”
  • “There's a difference between being assertive and looking for a fight.”
    Glen Latham
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  • Sometimes I feel as though the entire point of a woman’s life is to fall in love with people who will leave her.
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  • It’s only before the realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
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  • So much of friendship is about being in the right place at the right time.
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  • Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.
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  • Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.
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  • A loose end—that’s what we women call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.
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  • “All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom,” he repeated. “‘Thanatopsis,’ by William Cullen Bryant.
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  • Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.
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  • The point is that we’re all icebergs. Ninety percent is under the surface.
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  • This is what it is like to be married: conversations in which no one actually speaks.
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Vermont

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This is my life: The alarm goes off at five-thirty with the murmuring of a public-radio announcer, telling me that there has been a coup in Chad, a tornado in Texas.

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This book is in Rainy Day Books (Staff Picks for 2010). (community list)

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  1. Anna Quindlen (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: US
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9781400065745
Page Count: 299

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