Jennifer Haigh Quotes

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

  Jennifer Haigh

  Stories, My Family

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• Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

  Jennifer Haigh

  Reading, Writing, Practice

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

  Jennifer Haigh

  Voice, Familiar, Wanted

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• 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.

  Jennifer Haigh

  Loyalty, Powerful, Fog

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• 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.

  Jennifer Haigh

  Art, Prayer, Distance

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• That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?

  Jennifer Haigh

  Mother, Sacrifice, Men

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