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Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do…and if you get lucky…you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it’s gone. And it never comes back again.

Billie Letts

You’re dying right now. Right this minute.’ He looked at his watch, said, ‘Right this second,’ then tapped it with his finger. ‘See there? That second passed. It’s gone. Not gonna come again.
BILLIE LETTS

Dying Talking Watches
Why does anyone lie? ‘Cause we’re scared or crazy, maybe just because we’re mean. I guess there’s a million reason to lie, and I might’ve told that many…but none like that.
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Crazy Guess Lying Mean Million Reason
Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do…and if you get lucky…you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it’s gone. And it never comes back again.
BILLIE LETTS

Again Back Change Come Lucky might
She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping – a Goldilocks without her bears
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Alarms Employees Sleep Three
And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.
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Crystals Green Shimmered Tree
I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way?
BILLIE LETTS

Deep Every Way Rich Washed
And while I’m talking to you, every second I’m talking, a second is passing. Gone. Count them up. Count them down. They’re gone. Each one bringing you closer to your dying time.
BILLIE LETTS

Bringing Court Dying Passing Second Talking
Novalee watched his lips shape the words…the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.
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Air Secret Sound
You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don’t know what day it is, of course.
BILLIE LETTS

Courses Thinking Years
Home is the place that’ll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.
BILLIE LETTS

Fall Home Place
Never act like you want it, darlin’. Act like you wouldn’t own it if they paid you. Tell them it’s dirty, broken…a useless thing. Then make an offer.
BILLIE LETTS

Broken Dirty Things Useless
Come on, Forney.’ Novalee, it’s a parasite.’ But it’s a tradition.’ It’s a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?’ Yes! it’s what people do with mistletoe.
BILLIE LETTS

Kissing Parasite People Tradition
…tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.
BILLIE LETTS

Good Living Pass Worth

Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do…and if you get lucky…you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it’s gone. And it never comes back again.

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Maybe you never tell a lie so big it can eat away a part of you. But if you ever do…and if you get lucky…you might a chance to set it right. Just one chance to change it. Then it’s gone. And it never comes back again.

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