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Anne Tyler Quotes: People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
         

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.


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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.



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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.



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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.



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