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“Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.”
― Who Could That Be at This Hour?
― Who Could That Be at This Hour?
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
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“...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.”
― Why We Broke Up
― Why We Broke Up
“You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.”
― Who Could That Be at This Hour?
― Who Could That Be at This Hour?
“Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.”
― Who Could That Be at This Hour?
― Who Could That Be at This Hour?
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