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When Holly thinks about it a long time afterwards, when things are starting to stay fixed and come into focus at last, she will think that probably there are ways you could say Marcus Wiley killed Chris Harper.
“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― In the Hand of the Goddess
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― In the Hand of the Goddess
“The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.”
― Suicide Blonde
― Suicide Blonde
“Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.”
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“Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.”
― Like Life: Stories
― Like Life: Stories
“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”
― Atonement
― Atonement
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