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What was luxury? Nimble. In a drought, it was a glass of water; in a flood, a dry place to stand.
Powerful people forget they can be surprised—she knew this firsthand now, because, wonder of wonders, she had become a powerful person.
Turned out, it could just drive up the mountain, and he would open the front door.
why it was that humans were drawn to natural beauty. It wasn’t for them. Here, in fact, it actively opposed them. Everything that made the landscape beautiful—the remote location, the steeply pitched slopes, the rushing rapids—was dangerous. And yet, like mice before snakes, deer before hunters, a certain type of gentle woman before a certain type of brutal man, humans pined and longed for these vistas.
fifteenth-century Welsh uprisings,
Lmao maggie.
It was the most meaningful gift the Morgans had ever offered her.
an egalitarian pastime, business magnates and head waiters united in regret.
put on her fur coat (a gift, like the bees),
She wasn’t even sure what she could dismantle. She had lost the opportunity to ask him which of his policies were meant to please the guests, which to please the staff, and which to please the water.
she belonged to the Avallon first, the mountains second.
She remembered it well enough that when Pearl Harbor happened, a small part of her had been relieved that Mr. Francis had not lived to see it, so that her love of him would not be ruined.
When people saw what was wrong and right, they were supposed to choose right.
It is a dreadful idea, it is an immortal idea. It feels wrong, but everything already feels wrong.
