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There was something very centering about peeling potatoes.
It was the sort of damp, gray day enjoyed by ducks and frogs and very few humans.
No one so plain should be so gorgeous. It sets a bad example for the rest of us plain people.”
“Beautiful women have an easier time of it, at least while they’re young and beautiful. The rest of us must develop style. It’s not so easy as beauty, but it lasts longer, and it’s less brittle.”
you can never count on people to die just because it would make your life easier.”
She picked up her cup and took a sip, trying, like many before her, to drown her emotions with tea.
“The problem with being rich is that you simply have no idea how expensive it is to be poor.”
she had bigger problems than rodent nomenclature.
