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Blackouts
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Yet the habits of poverty run deep—and I felt, underneath the surface, the same old dread. A constant sense that I’d forgotten to attend to a vague but terrible urgency.
“There was no honesty in regretting what had given me my life.”
― Circe
― Circe
“And of course when I say that my dear father was a failure I mean it only in the grossest worldly sense. He was an intelligent good man, pure in heart.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“Tenderness and absolute trust and communication and truth: these things matter more and more as one grows older.”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
― Circe
― Circe
“And what she remembered now, staring out Richard’s window toward the afternoon sun, was the absurd feeling back then, when Claire was eight, that they’d already missed the boat forever. That the damage had been done sometime in the past, not the present, and they were living in its aftermath. That the best they could hope for was good scarring.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
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