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“A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.”
“The measure of a society is its compassion.”
“Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.”
“My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me oftenin the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new...”
“Vianne knelt down beside Sarah, she felt for a pulse and found none. The silence turned sour, thick; all Vianne could think about was the sound of this child's laughter and how empty the world woul...”
“She remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression, like a thick glass jar that closed around you, sucking away the air you needed to breathe, creating a barrier between y...”
“Hey, Meg," she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. I'm applying for grad sc”
“she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.”
“Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.”
“This time I really am going to light the world on fire,' she said, laughing. 'I finally have a fucking match.”
“its better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least youllfly before you fall”
“Magic to be its best must be unexpected".”
“Magic to be its best must be unexpected.”
“Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?”
“The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices o...”
“I look at people who arent us and I hate them.”
“Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other peoples voices, the immense gratitude that it wasnt their child who had died. She heard Im so sorry until she despised thos...”
“The trip from Portland to New York City was like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. It went on and on, and by the time you reached your destination, there was no sensation left in your extremit...”
“The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind ...”
“Those are exactly the kind of memories I try to avoid, but they're like abestos: invisible and deadly. You need special gear to get rid of them.”
