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“Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.”
― The Lowland
― The Lowland
“More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?”
― A Mercy
― A Mercy
“Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.”
― The Inheritance of Loss
― The Inheritance of Loss
“Nobody loses all the time.”
― 100 Selected Poems
― 100 Selected Poems
“That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out”
― Americanah
― Americanah
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