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“Saying something stupid doesn't make you stupid," Susan said. " Luckily for all of us.”
― The War That Saved My Life
― The War That Saved My Life
“A bedjacket speaks of desperation, and what it says is: toodle-oo.”
― The Stone Diaries
― The Stone Diaries
“What is a holy mass, Tom, if not a play? A wedding? A coronation? do you wish to know why I am a playmaker? Because I know that, at every moment, we are in the midst of some play. Only in an arena that calls itself theater may we stand outside the real theater - our lives - and we see them in all their truth, Tom. By which, if course, I mean their tragedy.”
― The School of Night
― The School of Night
“This household is like a pocketful of coins that jingled together for a time, but now have been slapped on a counter to pay a price. The pocket empties out, the coins venture back into the infinite circulation of currency, separate, invisible, and untraceable.”
― The Lacuna
― The Lacuna
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