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I think it’s phony to force oneself to be jolly just because it happens to be marked on the calendar.”
“You have two lives in you, Alice. The one you know, and another one. One that has been waiting for you for a very long time. They have nothing in common, apart from you. The man I spoke about yesterday is to be found somewhere along the path to that other, unknown life, but he will be forever lost to you unless you go on a long journey. A journey that will lead you to discover that nothing you believe in is real.”
“I wonder now if I didn’t prefer it when you and your noisy friends kept me up at night—at least I was in my own bed,” he grumbled to the slumbering Alice.
“Thank you for everything, Ethan darling,” simpered Carol teasingly as she filled the hot-water bottle. “Your relationship has certainly taken a turn for the better since my last visit. Is there something you want to tell me?” “That you’re nosy and your insinuations are completely off the mark.”
Adrienne Bolland?”
She’s hardly my victim. I’m doing her a great service.” “By manipulating her life and sending her into the harm of a man you pay me that I must find? If that is your estimate of honesty, I will be constrained to raise my price and ask for a payment in the front.
“The response is clear. Boys like to fight, and of course, it’s in their nature. But as they grow up and their vocabulary expands, they will find the right words to express themselves and the violence will subside. Brutality is just the result of frustration, the incapacity to express oneself in words. Without words, people often resort to fists.”
I think one person’s courage can defeat the complacency of a thousand others.
