Liese O'Halloran Schwarz
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What Could Be Saved
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The Possible World
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2018
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A Poem for Every Winter Day:
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“Life was a sucking cornucopia of loss, everyone teetering on its edge all the time, all the precious things at risk every moment. Childhoods and pink pigs and best friends, lovers and brothers and parents and children, whole lives and histories perpetually rushing into the ravenous funnel of oblivion. It wasn’t possible to cherish them enough before they were taken away.”
― What Could Be Saved
― What Could Be Saved
“She’d been living so long with an illusion, that they’d been whole and happy once, a perfect family shattered by tragedy. All her life mourning that loss. When instead they had been more like bits in a kaleidoscope, falling randomly to make small areas of beauty, falling apart again with the next twist, into a new disorder and a new beauty. Perhaps everyone was that way, living their lives out in the clung clump of color in which they found themselves, never seeing the bigger picture and how it all fit.”
― What Could Be Saved
― What Could Be Saved
“Life was a sucking cornucopia of loss, everyone teetering on its edge all the time, all the precious things at risk every moment.”
― What Could Be Saved
― What Could Be Saved
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“Compelling fiction often obscures the humble truth.”
― All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
― All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and the lightest parts of ourselves are scattered to the wind.”
― All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
― All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
“Rich only matters if he marries you," I said grimly. "Handsome matters not at all.”
― All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
― All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
“Imagine what ideas are locked up in the hearts and minds of women who simply lack the tools to express them.”
― All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
― All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother
“There was no real way for a person to try something out, see if he liked it...because you try it and try it and try it a little longer and next thing it's who you are.”
― Ask Again, Yes
― Ask Again, Yes