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“But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?”
― A Lifetime Burning
― A Lifetime Burning
“I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning to surf. The waves keep rolling in, each different from the last, and you have to ride them, instead of getting pounded to bits.”
― Other Women
― Other Women
“When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet," she writes. "Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.”
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“If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.”
― The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
― The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
“Her name was a joke, she said, like Karen Cutter's family nick-naming her Cookie, or poor Marie Antoinette Jones, whose parents had liked the sound of the name but who were a tad weak in French history.”
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