“But if Nigel, the fortune-teller, was right about fate, then there was no omnipotent hand determining her destiny; she needed to stop letting her worries control it.”
― Caraval
― Caraval
“I was scared that if you realized what a wreck I was, you wouldn’t want me, so I pushed you away.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“And then Eloise would storm out, and they'd go to separate rooms, and I would be so sure that was it. That Eloise wouldn't come back. Or my parents would split up. I was always waiting for something terrible to happen.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“I also know you’ll find her at the end when all of this is over and you’ll wish you’d not spent your evenings sitting in this stinking tavern feeling sorry for yourself.”
― Caraval
― Caraval
“Then she got choked up, because camping was something she and Hank used to do. “When we were first dating and had no money,” she explained. Then, after a teary laugh, she added, “And once we’d been married for decades and still had no money.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
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