Excerpts from "Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake"

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
by Anna Quindlen

In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead—and celebrating it all—as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all the stuff in our closets, and more.

Excerpt from: https://books.google.com/books?id=iaY8ngEACAAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions

Time passed, almost imperceptibly.
时间流逝，几乎不知不觉。

Life must be lived forward
but understood backward.
— SØREN KIERKEGAARD

Most of the learning takes place not in a classroom or a library, but in the laboratory of our own lives.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
—JOHN RANDOLPH, colonial member of Congress