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“There stirred behind her face a sense of life and purpose and mirth and caring that made her seem to be in motion even as she was still. There was a kind of rhythm to her, even in motionless repose. I said, “Energy contained by grace, maybe.”
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“But like they say at the Pentagon, you have to plan for the enemy’s capacity, not his intentions.”
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“Susan made a large plate of ham sandwiches while we finished up our maps and we had them with coffee in front of the fire. “You make a good fire for a broad,” I said to Susan. “It’s easy,” Susan said, “I rubbed two dry sexists together.”
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“I explained to the desk sergeant who I was, and he got so excited at one point that he glanced up at me for a moment before he went back to writing in a spiral notebook.”
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“it’s better to be what I am than to be failing at what I am not.”
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“The word woman is derived from the Old English wifemann meaning ‘wife-person.’ The very noun by which our language designates us does so only in terms of men.”
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“It’s as natural as anyone else.”
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“We don’t ask other teachers about their sexual habits.”
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“Quite the largest percentage,” Rachel said, “of child molestations are committed by heterosexual men. As I pointed out in my book, the incidence of child molestation by lesbians is so small as to be statistically meaningless.”
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“Rachel drank some more bourbon. “What I am trying to do,” she said, “is to
thank you. And to say it as genuinely as I can. I do thank you. I will remember as
long as I live when you came into the room and got me, and I will always
remember when you killed them, and I was glad, and you came and we put our
arms around each other. And I will always remember that you cried.”
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“Words can,” Susan said. “And tone of voice. You’re just so goddamned autonomous that you won’t explain yourself to anybody.”
― Robert B. Parker, Looking For Rachel Wallace