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Jacqueline Roman
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There had been for some years a Mr. White, and she had performed for him all those duties a wife customarily performs for a husband: she had cooked his meals, scrubbed his floors, laundered his shirts, emptied his chamber pot, and warmed
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“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town”
― Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
― Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read.”
― The Risk Pool
― The Risk Pool
“know what it is like to finish a book and find oneself wondering, a day or a week later, what happened to the butcher or who got the diamonds, or whether or not the dowager was ever reconciled with her niece. I”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they’ll take it back.”
― Violeta
― Violeta
“After she’d blocked the peephole, she went to her laptop and did a Google search on peephole intrusions—and learned that women were not only watched, but had actually been filmed through the peephole as they undressed inside their locked rooms. Yet another reason, Letty thought, that all women should be issued guns at birth.”
― The Investigator
― The Investigator
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