"Grandma's Letter of Apology" tells the story of a grandmother and her granddaughter's family, as well as several other neighbors. is a story about love, forgiveness, and protection. After reading it, you found that everyone you think is strange actually has a fragmented past. Buckman uses his humorous and funny language to tell a story and synthesize it into a book, and those sentences full of warmth and ** still make people unforgettable for a long time.
01 Laugh, dream, be different, life is a great adventure.
02 Grandma said that you shouldn't care what those stupid people think. Because the best people are always different – look at those superheroes. After all, if everyone had superpowers, there would be nothing unusual. 03 If you can't get rid of the bad thing, you have to cover it with more "good material". 04 When you say such terrible words, the person you hear can still be on your side, and you can't help but love such a person. 05 This kid is not a little bastard because he hit a girl, but because he hit someone, anyone. It's not because you're a damn coward for hitting a girl. 06 The unknown is the greatest fear, and the unknown can only be understood through imagination. 07 Some people don't want to show that they are scared to do it, they pretend to be loud and shout, and then suddenly they are pointed in a different direction, so they go across the street. 08 People drink to forget the uncomfortable things or to have the courage to remember. 09 The most powerful power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it makes those who stay not want to live anymore. 10 Grief and loss are eternal, but we cannot bear them if we carry them all our lives. Grief can paralyze us. So in the end, we had to pick them up in bags and throw them somewhere.
11 To compensate for the fact that the "little half" would keep them awake for the next eighteen years, the "little half" let the mother sleep for the first nine months. 12 If you hate someone who has hatred, you may become the person you hate. Don't kick, you'll just get it all over the place. 13 When someone hides your secrets, you feel like you're being taken for an idiot, and no one likes to be taken for an idiot. 14 They told her that she could not do many, many things for various reasons. But she did it anyway. A few years after she was born, they said girls couldn't vote, but now, girls are still voting. It's time to stand up to the bastards who tell you what you can and can't do. Just do it. 15 If you become a police officer, you can't choose who you protect. You have to work hard to protect everyone. 16 I should do what I fear most. I should laugh at fear. 17 When terrible things happen, people always think: If I didn't have it then. 18 The real pitfall of life is that almost no one is a complete jerk, and almost no one has never done something jerky. The difficulty of life is to stay on the side of the "not being a jerk" as much as possible.
19 Man desires to be loved, and if he does not, then he is worshipped, and if he is not worshipped, then he is feared, and if he is not feared, then he is hated and despised. People want to inject some kind of emotion into others. The soul fears the vacuum, and at all costs, he yearns for contact. 20 Grow up well, be different, and don't let anyone tell you you you shouldn't be different. If a lot of people are different, no one needs to be ordinary. Grandma's education for her granddaughter is to tell her children that you have to laugh, you have to be different, and you have to love the world with your own heart, even though the world is full of holes.
Everyone wants to be loved, but only if you are open to the love of others. I feel quite ** after reading the whole book, I especially appreciate my grandmother's great love and bravery, and I hope we can all become heroines like my grandmother, even if it's just to be our own heroes. Personal opinion, for reference only.