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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.”
Mrs. Cullinan was right about one thing. My name wasn't Mary.
Hadn't I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living?
He said quietly and with great dignity, “Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.”
I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. They shield themselves with an aura of unavailableness (for which after a time they begin to take credit) largely as a defense tactic.
