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The Women
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“Thanks,” he said. “For what?” “Just being here, I guess. Sometimes it doesn’t take much to save a man in ’Nam.”
“They had somehow taken a group of women from the town through the (concentration) camps to show them what had been right there, and Tommy's brother said that although some of the women wept, some of them put their chins up, and looked angry, as if they refused to be made to feel bad.”
― Anything Is Possible
― Anything Is Possible
“... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.”
― March
― March
“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
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“[Mahler:] I thought you were on sick leave for the rest of the month.
I am, said Van Veeteren. It's just that I find it hard to turn my back on things. And also to turn a blind eye.”
― The Return
I am, said Van Veeteren. It's just that I find it hard to turn my back on things. And also to turn a blind eye.”
― The Return
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