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If she lived to be one hundred, Hattie would still see, as clearly as she saw her babies slumped before her now, her father’s body collapsed in the corner of his smithy, the two white men from town walking away from his shop without enough
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“Cecily said, "That's the difference between optimism and naivety. No one in this room is naive. Naive people haven't been through real trials yet, so they think it could never happen to them. Optimists have been through it already, and we keep getting up each day because we believe we can keep it from happening again. Or we trick ourselves into thinking it."
Richard said, "All belief is a trick.”
― The Great Believers
Richard said, "All belief is a trick.”
― The Great Believers
“both responded like thirsty plants to water when it came to parental approval.”
― Truly Madly Guilty
― Truly Madly Guilty
“He was comfortable in any social situation: garden party or cage fighting contest, it was all the same to Vid, it was all interesting.”
― Truly Madly Guilty
― Truly Madly Guilty
“Why did people feel the need to comment on the rain, when they had absolutely nothing of value to add to the conversation?”
― Truly Madly Guilty
― Truly Madly Guilty
“We never let go of that,' Cecily said. 'I mean, even for parents - that's never not your baby, you know?'
"I think you're right." As he got sicker, it was more and more often how he thought of people--of Charlie, certainly, and of everyone else here or gone: not as the sum of all the disappointments, but as every beginning they'd ever represented, every promise.”
― The Great Believers
"I think you're right." As he got sicker, it was more and more often how he thought of people--of Charlie, certainly, and of everyone else here or gone: not as the sum of all the disappointments, but as every beginning they'd ever represented, every promise.”
― The Great Believers
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