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“You should expect that I’m going to spoil you and take care of you and remind you every day that I may not deserve you, but I’m never letting you go.”
“When at last they pulled off the veil, they say my mother smiled. That is how they knew she was quite stupid. Brides did not smile.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I’d learn that so many things that I thought were solid and structured in my life could be broken down, bit by bit, just like those buildings.”
― Last Summer on State Street
― Last Summer on State Street
“I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.”
― Small Great Things
― Small Great Things
“It is far easier to talk about loss than it is to talk about love. It is easier to articulate the pain of love’s absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
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