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There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality.

Dreaming of his future, he no longer heard all the things she did not say.

The intricate gears of her mind ticking silently at no one, thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee. p. 251

As if they were two halves of a mold. He

In the dark they are careful of each other, as if they know they are fragile, as if they know they can break.

Let's pretend," he says, "that you
never met me. That she was never born.
That none of this ever happened." Then
he is gone.

You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.

Morning sun fills the house, creamy as lemon chiffon, lighting the insides of cupboards and empty closets and clean, bare floors.

It will be all right, she told herself, and she stepped out of the boat into the water.

A few people insisted that the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad was in Europe. For college students, they have surprising trouble with geography.

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you

At least I know who I am. What I want,

Before that she hadn't realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.

She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back

She drove on into the night, homeward, her hair weeping tiny slow streams down her back.

You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.

nothing in the bag but a quart

Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" makes one feel OTHERED.

condolences; a few of them pat Hannah on the head, as if she's

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,

After a while, the fear became a habit, too.

I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.

I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.

Lydia has never really had friends, but their parents have never known.

She will figure out what happened to Lydia. She will find out who is responsible. She will find out what went wrong.

the night before? He had been away four whole

this was the first reason he came to love her: because she had blended in so perfectly, because she had seemed so completely and utterly at home.

This is it, Marilyn told herself. Let it
go. This is what you have. Accept it.

It's too late. He's already learned how not to drown.

He pushed her in. And then he pulled her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.