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China Dolls
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And Helen? She was pretty, like I said, but something was off with her. How could she be so swift on the effect Chinese herbs had on men when she supposedly lived such a sheltered life with her family? Beyond that, I wasn’t sure I liked the
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“We both knew we were speaking about the effortlessness with which one falls in love without intending to, as if we were two stalks of bamboo bend toward each other by the chance of the wind. And then we bent toward each other and kissed, lost in the nowhere of being together.”
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
“She didn’t understand people who thrived on argument and being right all the time. Her mother was that way, and what did that get her? Nothing but unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and anger.”
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
“Death was not necessarily a portal to the blank bliss of absolute nothingness. It was a deep dive into the unknown.”
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
“Konstantin stared, but Vasya could not tell what he was looking at. Perhaps he was seeing the face above him: a creature he loved and reviled as he loved and reviled himself.
Perhaps he was only seeing a starlit wood, and a road that had no turning.
Perhaps there was peace for him, there at the end.”
― The Winter of the Witch
Perhaps he was only seeing a starlit wood, and a road that had no turning.
Perhaps there was peace for him, there at the end.”
― The Winter of the Witch
“What do you think was the very first sound to become a word, a meaning?' ... And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. Ma, ma, ma. Then the mother decided that was her name and she began to speak, too. She taught the baby to be careful: sky, fire, tiger. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
― The Bonesetter's Daughter
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