Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.
“The one thing in my life that I have hated the most, out of a long list of things, is being told what to do.”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
“The tricky shiver in the air was a reminder: everything you believe is up for grabs, every ground rule can change on a moment’s whim, and the dealer always, always wins.”
― Faithful Place
― Faithful Place
“I thought of asking her if it freaked her out to look up at night and see the stars and know they go on forever and ever, but didn't bother. I just said no. You get used to marvelous things. You take them for granted. You can try not to, but you do. There's too much wonder, that's all. It's everywhere.”
― Later
― Later
“It was such a pathetic little story, a snip of nothing, the kind teenage girls fight over and forget every day. It had led us to this week and this room.”
― Faithful Place
― Faithful Place
“That evening was one of the reasons it had never occurred to me that Rosie could be dead. The blaze of her, when she was that angry: you could have lit a match by touching it to her skin, you could have lit up Christmas trees, you could have seen her from space. For all that to have vanished into nothing, gone for good, was unthinkable.”
― Faithful Place
― Faithful Place
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