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“I got up to get us a drink of water and as I stood in the kitchen in the early morning light, running the water out of the tap, I looked out at the hills at the back of the town, at the trees on the hills, at the bushes in the garden, at the birds, at the brand new leaves on a branch, at a cat on a fence, at the bits of wood that made the fence, and I wondered if everything I saw, if maybe every landscape we casually glanced at, was the outcome of an ecstasy we didn't even know was happening, a love-act moving at a speed slow and steady enough for us to be deceived into thinking it was just everyday reality.”
― Girl Meets Boy
― Girl Meets Boy
“The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones.”
― I'm a Fan
― I'm a Fan
“I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn’t have made them. Freak or fake, I’d been asking myself ever since I arrived at college, and here was someone bold enough to be both.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!”
― The Edible Woman
― The Edible Woman
“I cannot do this anymore. I cannot pull myself together again and spend the next fifteen hours of wakefulness fending off the fact of my own misery.”
― What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal
― What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal
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