“And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.”
― The Lowland
― The Lowland
“Why be alone when we can be together baby
You can make my life worthwhile
And I can make you start to smile”
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You can make my life worthwhile
And I can make you start to smile”
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“The years the couple have together are a shared conclusion to lives separately built, separately lived. There is no use wondering what might have happened if the man had met her in his forties, or in his twenties. He would not have married her then.”
― The Lowland
― The Lowland
“Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.”
― The Lowland
― The Lowland
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