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Jasper Holmes looked me over with a twist to his upper lip.
Why do I think of Clint Eastwood ?
“I’m saying the world takes you at your word. Make sure the thing you’re telling them is what you want them to hear.”
he’s some combination of Bigfoot, the bogeyman, and Jack the Ripper.
That's my type.
Arthur McLachlan from The Lonely Hearts Book Club?
Highlights her own book.
I hadn’t lost a grand romance the way he had, but I had lost out on a dream. To make something of myself and get out of this town, to build a life that extended beyond the mountains that ringed our little patch of God’s green earth.
Every day that passed with my hands in a sink full of dirty dishes and my bank account in the red brought me one step closer to the inevitable. Growing old in a place like this, using my youthful disappointments as a reason to hide. Turning into a sour, miserable old woman whose only solace could be found between the pages of a book—or a garden like this one.
It’s strange, isn’t it? To think that a hard heart could make you more vulnerable instead of less?
