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Same seeks same; we search out the familiar.

A FACE SEEN OUT of context creates confusion.

I'm neither plain nor pretty. I'm irrevocably average.

This season's promotion was a set of knives. Anna saved the stickers - Merkli - but rarely cashed them in.

Suggested they try the Glatt, an enormous American-style mall in Wallisellen, one town over from Dietlikon.

One day after class, she dropped her purse outside Bahnhof Oerlikon

There is a correlation between the severity of a person's moods and a lack of self-knowledge.

It's a travesty when a woman wastes herself.

Bergulme. Elsbeere. Hagebuche. Efeu. Scots elm. Service tree. Hornbeam.

The only thing we need to know is this: they bring home a paycheck.

At the Manor on Bahnhofstrasse Anna fought aggressive crowds to pick out a modest twin sweater set that

He'd taken the boys to the Hallenstadion many times to see the ZSC Lions play.

Some weaknesses beg to be seized.

The deepest sleep is meant only for children and perfect fools.

I am the sum of all my twitches.

She bought a pretzel from a vendor and

And if ever there's a time to move beyond one's boundaries it's when one has, literally, moved beyond them.

The face one wears as an adult is a mask that's cut to fit in her youth.

. . . the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, and the disorder it tends toward is flammable.

For ... if love is not infinite or eternal? Then I want nothing of it.

Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought

She could go anywhere she wanted. The going wasn't the problem. The problem was belonging where she went.

Grief that finds no relief in tears makes other organs weep.

I am beholden to my own peculiar irony: to survive I self-destruct.

A measure of narcissism is healthy. But out of balance, what was once appropriate self-confidence becomes grandiose, pathological, and destructive.

The trouble with mistakes is that they rarely seem like mistakes when they are made.

A secret's safest hiding place is in the open.

Four simple chambers.
A thousand complicated doors.
One of them is yours.

Indulged a pair of affable though persistent Zeugen Jehovas who, each month, arrived on her doorstep with a German-language copy of The Watchtower.

Synchronicity is the external manifestation of an inner reality.

There's always a correspondence between one's dreams and one's wounds.

Even the loveliest shoulders can bear but so much.

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

Then Anna and Archie took the number 10 tram from Sternen Oerlikon,

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

Synchronicity often masquerades as coincidence. As right-place-right-time-ness. As an and-then-suddenly kind of incident.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. - JOAN CRAWFORD

Novelty's a cloth that wears thin at an alarming rate.

Truth is told when it tells itself.

She thought about Switzerland. Where a smile will give you away as an American.

I have no knack for volition.

A cock wants a hole.

Pain is the proof of life

Let's get you one, Anna."
"A lover?"
Edith rolled her eyes. "No. A fucking houseplant. Yes, a lover." Edith smirked. "It'll cheer you up!

And just like that, your big, black lies grow small and white.

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

Jung said that beautiful women were sources of terror. That as a general rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. Anna

An obsession is a defense against feeling out of control. A compulsion is the failure of that defense.

But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.

You love it. You love it and you hate it. What you don't feel is apathy.

Shames the shadow of love she thought

Where you were is never as relevant as where you are.

As fussy as they were about cleanliness and order, the Swiss seemed to Anna to be rather lax about graffiti.

That it ought to be known I was born this way,
With indiscriminate tendencies.

On another she made chitchat with the cashier at the Coop. That was an absolute first. The checker offered a forced, availing smile in return.

But there are times to talk to the dead, times when the dead want to talk.

A LONELY WOMAN IS a dangerous woman." Doktor Messerli spoke with grave sincerity. "A lonely woman is a bored woman. Bored women act on impulse.

A man can smell a woman's sadness

I've never been nearly as alone as I always say I am

I'm cheating on the man I'm cheating on my husband with, Anna thought. I grow less decent every passing day.

Bored women join clubs and volunteer. Sad women have affairs.

Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right?