Dolores Claiborne
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Read between November 21 - November 25, 2021
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Oh, frig ya coffee! Take the whole pot and shove it up your kazoo.
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An island’s not a good place to kill anybody, I can tell you that. Seems like there’s always someone around, itching to get his nose into your business just when you can least afford it.
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There ain’t no power in heaven or on earth that can stop people from thinkin the worst when they want to.
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The world’s a sorry schoolroom sometimes, ain’t it?
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Hangin sheets in deep cold is a kind of torture. Nobody knows what it’s like unless they’ve done it, and once you’ve done it, you never ever forget it.
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But I still gotta say she probably wa’ant completely vacant upstairs, not even at the end. A few rooms to rent, maybe, but not completely vacant.
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Even so, she had a horrible, scary kind of strength, like a dyin queen that won’t let go of her crown even at the end; it’s like God Himself has got to pry it loose a finger at a time.
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And if you think I didn’t need a little soothin, you try wakin up all alone in a big old museum like that in the middle of the night, with the wind screamin outside and an old crazy woman screamin inside.
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Out here in the boondocks about the most int’restin thing a person can do is die sudden, did you ever notice that?
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one thing I’ve learned in my life is that stupid reasons make stupid marriages.
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Bein married to Joe . . . aw, shit! What’s any marriage like? I guess they are all different ways, but there ain’t one of em that’s what it looks like from the outside, I c’n tell you that. What people see of a married life and what actually goes on inside it are usually not much more than kissin cousins. Sometimes that’s awful, and sometimes it’s funny, but usually it’s like all the other parts of life—both things at the same time.
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a coward is more afraid of bein discovered than he is of anything else, even dyin.
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A few other people looked at me like I’d gone nuts, but I didn’t care. Sometimes life is so goddam funny you just have to laugh.
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Which only shows you how little I knew Vera Donovan back then. As far as that kitty was concerned, she didn’t have to recognize Jack Shit on a hill of beans if she didn’t want to.
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But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don’t hear nothing else: everything I did, I did for love . . . the love a natural mother feels for her children. That’s the strongest love there is in the world, and it’s the deadliest. There’s no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.
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