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I don’t like to speak ill of the living.” My smile came with a raised eyebrow. “That is usually reserved for the dead. What of them?” “Oh, I don’t think they mind a few snippy words now and again.”
“Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were probably what the women called love.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“I have found it to be absolutely astounding, all the trouble living has turned out to be. Things nobody ever warned me about.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“I didn't know it was happiness at the time, because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self doubt.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“Nothing was ordinary, since nothing had ever happened to me.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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