Their faces were the way women’s faces are when they’ve been talking about you behind your back and they think you’ve heard: embarrassed, but also a little defiant, as if it were their right.
“We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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