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“There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Carol

“What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt