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“It’s awful being a child,” she said, simply, “at the mercy of other people.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“Running might take her forward, it could even take her home; but it couldn’t take her back—not ten minutes, ten hours, not ten years or days.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“A wine-colored welt of scar tissue had bubbled up in the little stab hole; it was interesting to look at, like a small blob of pink glue, and it reminded her in a good way of Lawrence of Arabia, burning himself with matches. Evidently that sort of thing built soldierly character. “The trick,” he’d said in the movie, “is not to mind that it hurts.” In the vast and ingenious scheme of suffering, as Harriet was now beginning to understand it, this was a trick well worth learning.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“And if what she’d wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she’d known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
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