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What’s odd, when you think about it, is that people can be seized by the whim to read in the first place. It’s not exactly a natural thing to do.
“They haven't been unhappy these last few years, quite the opposite. But it's been a long, long time since she felt that sense of giddy love that effervesces in the pit of your stomach and spectacularly upends the world.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“Fifteen years ago, before we met, Daniela was a comer to Chicago's art scene. She had a studio in Bucktown, showed her work in half-dozen galleries, and had just lined up her first solo exhibition in New York. Then came life. Me. Charlie. A bout of crippling postpartum depression. Derailment. Now she teaches private art lessons to middle-grade students.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“Tea had featured heavily in the past fortnight. Miriam sometimes felt her belly sloshing with it, like a waterbed, yet still she took tea when it was proffered, for the symbolism, she supposed - solicitude, comfort, warmth. It is the English way, after all.”
― Missing, Presumed
― Missing, Presumed
“Life... is full of compromises you never thought you'd make when you were young.”
― Missing, Presumed
― Missing, Presumed
“This is Daniela with an energy like the first time we met fifteen years ago, before years of life-the normalcy, the elation, the depression, the compromise-transformed her into the woman who now shares my bed: amazing mother, amazing wife, but fighting always against the whispers of what might have been.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
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