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Ms. Mackey lamented this behavior, pointing out that money was too often used in lieu of verbal communication.
He drank, at times to excess, but there was nothing dark about it; he was looking not to kill a thought but to reset the clock, to force an occurrence.
He had no room in his mind for thoughts of her life beyond the time they shared together, and so he could never be offended by her refusal to bring him around to meet her peers.
The gamy meats somehow summon the fact of the animal’s existence, which puts me in mind of its death.”
prayerful moment before combat.
LA calma pfrima della ttempesta
Hers was a mixed fate, she thought: to know brilliance on sight, but never to command it.
“I’ve been neither lucky nor unlucky,” she said. “I’ve been luckless—such a bore.”
“What you want is to know someone’s there; you also want them to leave you alone. I’ve got that with Don. But, I was shocked because I suddenly understood that the heart takes care of itself. We allow ourselves contentment; our heart brings us ease in its good time.”
but do you know what a cliché is? It’s a story so fine and thrilling that it’s grown old in its hopeful retelling.”
But he soon came to learn that books were not the solution in entirety. They were about life, but they were not life itself,
This was what he believed his mother craved the most, for a person to say interesting things.
“I want to kill him for destroying what was a very perfect story of love,”
“I don’t like myself when I’m around you,” Frances added. “I don’t like the way I behave, which of course is my own fault, but in the end it’s just another reason to disapprove of you.”
