Elizabeth
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And just as when she’d been a girl, Ann’s list of considerations felt like so many lies told to pour the sauce of patience on a dish of flaming misery.
“he saw a woman he had no memory of ever meeting: dark, overweight, greasy-skinned, wearing a kind of knee-length silver kaftan that made him think of Bacofoil, and angel earrings that flashed, like Lucy’s antlers.”
― The Hallmarked Man
― The Hallmarked Man
“You know what Eleanor Roosevelt used to say: ‘A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.”
― The Book Club for Troublesome Women
― The Book Club for Troublesome Women
“Your heart is open, loyal, and good. Your faith is part of what makes you beautiful. Do not mourn your past. Leave it there, where it belongs”
― The Dawn and Its Light
― The Dawn and Its Light
“The problem with retrospect is it never shows up beforehand.”
― How to Read a Book
― How to Read a Book
“tired minds being good soil for bad thoughts. How the best thing you can do is go to bed.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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