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“Molly learned long ago that a lot of the heartbreak and betrayal that other people fear their entire lives, she has already faced. Father dead. Mother off the deep end. Shuttled around and rejected...”
“He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.”
“Do our natures dictate the choices we make, I wonder, or do we choose to live a certain way because of circumstances beyond our control?”
“You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small.""Then what?" I ask."Well, then you'll have to find a larger shell to live in."I consider this for...”
“It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.”
“I want to say, Christina, that you are ... unusual. And somehow..." her voice trails off. "Your mind-- your curiosity-- will be your comfort.”
“How did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost without my realizing it...”
“I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live”
“It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.”
“I want each day to last forever . . . It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past. Even in the midst of a pleasurable outing I'm aware of how ephemera...”
“If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.”
“Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that shes come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.”
“I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.”
“Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.”
“When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been goi...”
“It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.”
“This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.”
“I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.”
“That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.”
“It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.”
