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“His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.”
“How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?”
“Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.”
“There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.”
“Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag the other to pray.”