“Martha says I never looked odder or uglier, but you know I’ve always thought beauty a curse and am more than happy to dispense with it completely. Sometimes I forget that I’m a woman—at least—I forget to THINK OF MYSELF AS A WOMAN. All the obligations and comforts of womanhood seem to have nothing to do with me now. I’m not sure how I am supposed to behave and I’m not sure I would, if I knew.”
― The Essex Serpent
― The Essex Serpent
“Maybe it's better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”
― They Both Die at the End
― They Both Die at the End
“But no matter what choices we make - solo or together - our finish line remains the same … No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”
― They Both Die at the End
― They Both Die at the End
“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― The Sea
― The Sea
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