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Jamie Ford Biography

Jamie Ford (born July 9, 1968) is an American author. He is best known for his debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. The book received positive reviews after its release, and was also awarded best “Adult Fiction” book at the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature. The book was also named the #1 Book Club Pick for Fall 2009/Winter 2010 by the American Booksellers Association.

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The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

Choices, Hardest, Life, Life Choices, Right

I had my chance. ' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

Missing, Move, Moving, Retiring, Second Chance, Wanting

Hope can get you through anything.

Hope

All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever.

Come, Forever, Goes On, Good Things, Things

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

Among, Bitter, Sweet

I try not to live in the past. . . but. . . sometimes the past lives in me

Live, Lives, Past, Sometimes, Trying

Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.

Anymore, Back, Broken, Together, Two

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

Families, Long, Long Ago, Perfection

Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.

Creating, Distance, Hurt, Missing Someone, Real, Time

Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in.

Arrived, Care, Father, Imperfect, Littles

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

Care, Counts, Gently, Imminent, Mountain, Way

Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person.

Americans, Enemy, Mean, Parent, Person, Say

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

Bases, Break, Heart, Paid

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

Beautiful, Cold, Ends, Reminded

I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home.

Home, Matter, Matters, Nice, Thinking

There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

Heart, Lives, Long, People, Twice, Universe

A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon. The question hung there like a beautiful chord, ringing in the air. Henry was Chinese, Sheldon obviously wasn't. They looked nothing alike. Nothing at all. "I'm distant family," Henry said.

Air, Beautiful, Nurse, Whispered

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

Emotional, Lifetime, Nods, Stoic

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

Candy, Candy Stores, Everything, Free, Library, Stores