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We love Jane Austen because her characters, as sparkling as they are, are no better and no worse than us. They’re so eminently, so completely, human. I, for one, find it greatly consoling that she had us all figured out.”
“I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.”
― My Beloved World
― My Beloved World
“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn’t require a future.”
― In Five Years
― In Five Years
“It was inevitable, wasn’t it? The small mistakes and heartbreaks of guiding a life?”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“Your mother has been a lot of people in the twenty years I’ve known her, and I’ve had a chance to fall in love with every single one of them, Janie. That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“he was teaching the common-law rule against perpetuities, which limits how far into the future a will can control a line of inheritance.”
― My Beloved World
― My Beloved World
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