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“Boys get to keep that confidence [as they age], I think; girls have to give it back like it never really belonged to them.”
― Mary
― Mary
“She could not say why; he just seemed like the kind of man who healed, rather than wounded.”
― Braised Pork
― Braised Pork
“You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others -- why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres, or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion...All I ever wanted was to know *this* world.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“All of my joys have been pulled out of my mouth like teeth. All my home is nothing but sadness and silence and ruin and memory. I have been reduced, I am my own ghost, all my own beauty and youth have shrilled away, there are no illusions of happiness to impel me. Life is a prison of poverty and aborted dreams, it is nothing but a slow progress to my place beneath the soil.”
― Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript
― Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript
“Her father's hands, holding the chopsticks, were slightly unsteady - something she had first noticed years ago when he took her out to lunch, but tonight, it made her heart clench and tremble.”
― Braised Pork
― Braised Pork
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