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“Your father is a wise man,” the cigar trader said. “Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can’t fathom.”
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sending you there. He keeps you in a dinerlike purgatory instead, waiting and hoping and taking orders.”
― Three Women
― Three Women
“His eyes were the same as they had been. Faces change with life’s toll, but eyes remain a window to what was, and she could see him there.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“We don't remember what we want to remember. We remember what we can't forget.”
― Three Women
― Three Women
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