Cecille
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“Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.”
― The Mermaid Chair
― The Mermaid Chair
“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
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“I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones
“There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.”
― The Mermaid Chair
― The Mermaid Chair
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