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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

Anna Quindlen
Children, Regret, Past
Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing; Black and Blue”

I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow," that that's really the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. I think I had that kind of fearlessness even as a young person. It wasn't tempered by experience or wisdom, but it took me a long way.

Anna Quindlen
Moving, Past, Thinking
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London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

Anna Quindlen
Book, Past, Long
Anna Quindlen (2006). “Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City”, p.19, National Geographic Books

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

Anna Quindlen
Book, Past, Mystery
Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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