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Once Upon a River

by Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)

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“My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.”
― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union

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“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: companionship, marriage, silence, talk

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“If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.”
― Chris Rock

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“I understood that expensive shirts looked better than cheap shirts. The fabric wasn't shiny, no - shiny would be cheap. But it glowed, like there was light coming through from the inside. It was a fucking beautiful shirt, is what I'm saying”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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