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Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
“She philosophically noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year. Her own birthday, and every other day individualized by incidents in which she had taken some share. She suddenly thought, one afternoon, that there was another date, of greater importance than all those; that of her own death; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“If you ask someone out and they say no, try it again in a few minutes wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette.”
― Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
― Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Educated
― Educated
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