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The Art of Inheriting Secrets

Barbara O'Neal

Top 10 Best Quotes

“That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.”

“Life had washed me here on this strange errand. Maybe the best thing to do was to just let it show me what it had in mind.”

“you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.”

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,”

“very privilege of living in San Francisco at all, the homeless people down on Treat Avenue, the neighborhood where my mother’s house had sold for millions, the stories of people riding the train for two hours to get to work from places as distant as Stockton, people being taxed out of the homes they’d lived in for decades. “I mean, yeah, of course it does.” Thinking more, I felt a little ashamed”

“the night sang its own song, crickets in the shrubs and water running somewhere far away. An owl hooted at the moon.”

“setting pots of possible ideas to simmer on the back burners of my imagination.”

“down and carefully wrapped for storage with the other possibly valuable items from the first round of clearing. I looked at each one as it was removed from the wall, but there were no more messages. I hadn’t expected there to be. By two, Ian was finished filming and dropped me off at my”

“You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.”

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,” he said. “Is that a quote?” He nodded. “Rabindranath Tagore. He’s a great writer. You should read him.”

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