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A new thing is good, though it be a sore place.
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There wasn't anything simple about them, and I preferred that, and trusted it. My life wasn't simple either.
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It was as if we'd pressed ourselves together until his bones passed through mine and we were the same person, ever so briefly.
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Baobab. Away in the distance I could see the cloud-softened
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Only the vanished truly leave their mark. And
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People belong together to each other only as long as they believe. He stopped believing.
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I loved the deep smell of the horses and the track itself and the noises of the happy crowd taking its luck as it came.
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I like to think I'm the kind of girl who'll drink anything," I said, " but maybe not from a shoe.
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I have fought for independence here, and freedom, too. More and more I find they're not at all the same thing.
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Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
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The worst events always have the thrust of accidents, as if they come out of nowhere. But that's just lack of perspective.
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Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us for ever.
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It had been a false spring, a lie like all the other lies, and I found myself wondering it it would ever really come.
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Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things.
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The Philadelphia Story, but
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Because it's not always easy to know how to live.
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Berkeley explained. Then he told me how he'd been in London seeing a slew of doctors for his heart.
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Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, it hardly matters as long as you walk to where you want to be.
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No one really knows how it is with anyone else. That's the truth. That's our only real retaliation when the gossip starts to churn.
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I've sometimes thought that being loved a little less than others can actually make a person, rather than ruin them.
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Maybe that's the secret to surviving all sorts of trouble, knowing who you are apart from it, I mean.
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Only the day before, Cockie's dark joke wouldn't have included me, but now it did. "Is love always such a mess, do you suppose?
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Who knows what anyone deserves? We like to play judge and jury, but we're all a rotten mess under our skins.
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He had writing the way other people had religion
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Searching out something important and going astray look exactly the same for a while, in fact.
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Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.
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swallowed. My ears felt as if
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We stood there, locked and lovely as statues in a garden.
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They love me like a pack of wolves.Ernest — Paula McLain
Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
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I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.
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I met the devil,' Ernest said, finishing his glass of wine, 'and he doesn't give a damn about art.
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He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.
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But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
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Proper learning isn't just useful in society, Beryl. It can be wonderfully yours, a thing to have and keep just for you.
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All her stories seemed to involve rowboats and ukuleles, full moons and campfires and grog. I was desperately jealous.
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He lit another cigarette and inhaled deeply, the tip flaring an angry red. Isn't love a beautiful goddamn liar?
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Sometimes I've thought it's only our challenges that sharpen us, and change us, too - a mile-long runway and nineteen hundred pounds
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would all trickle through my fingers like so much red dust, for as long as childhood lasted it was a heaven fitted
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The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?
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Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved
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What do you mean to do?''Make literary history, I guess. — Paula McLain
he grinned a grin that began in his eyes and went everywhere at once. It was devastating.
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It was terrible to feel so empty, as if I were nothing. Why couldn't I be happy? And just what was happines anyway?
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All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.
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If you're ready to make the mad dash I'm game.
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Sometimes when you're hurting, it helps to throw yourself at something that will take your weight.
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My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.
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They sat in the cafes with their fresh faces and long lovely legs and waited for something outrageous to happen.
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How close people could be to us when they had gone as far away as possible, to the edges of the map. How unforgettable.
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I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.
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I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.
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The pilgrims and the lost often did look the same,
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This is why there is poetry. For days like these.
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I might just crawl under my bed and not come out until I'm old and doddering and can't remember feeling anything for anyone at all.
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And after a time, I stopped struggling even internally against the prescribed quietness.
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and was there for the birth, on 25 February
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though I leaned against him and tried to meet the kiss and to take it in, I couldn't quite feel it. I couldn't feel us. -
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You on the train and me here and everything emptier now you're gone. Tell me, are you real?
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On the street, it was dark in the way only Africa can be.
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He didn't know how love managed to be a garden one moment and war the next. He was at war now, his loyalty tested at every turn.
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We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.
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I wanted something grand and sweeping.""The kind of love you find in novels?"
"Maybe. That makes me incredibly stupid, I suppose. — Paula McLain
We'd given up trying to fool anyone, even ourselves.
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Men hear what they like and invent the rest.
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would be two days traveling, at least, and then he'd be
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Isn't love a beautiful goddamn liar?
— Paula McLain