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“thought immediately about Dorothea . . . about Beatrice . . . and what she’d been forced to give up—even though I didn’t know the circumstances that had led to her great loss. And that led me to think about myself, and the enormity of what I was poised to give up, without ever having had it.”
― Ann McMan, Dead Letters from Paradise

“But I shall hasten to thank you just the same for awakening within me the ability to recognize beauty, and once again, to allow my heart to experience the gentle stirrings of desire.”
― Ann McMan, Dead Letters from Paradise

“Lovejoy, Bess. “Patti Lyle Collins, Super-Sleuth of the Dead Letter Office.” Mental Floss, Aug. 25, 2015”
― Ann McMan, Dead Letters from Paradise

“But I was learning something about loss . . . and regret. About the death of hope, and the probability that both Beatrice and I would live out our days alone—tending our patches of bitter herbs in gardens that would forever be divided by fate, geography, and the capricious whims of history.”
― Ann McMan, Dead Letters from Paradise