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37 “You could just go get it,” Lena told Michael Runyon. “I’m not sure why I have to be involved now that you know where it is.” They were back at the Chapel. The place felt close and weirdly sacred, with the low lights reflecting off the
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“No, this was the career I wanted; a writer could be employed for as long as she could hold a pencil; for as long as her mind still held out. But an actress—even an actress like Mary—had a fleeting shelf life.”
― The Girls in the Picture
― The Girls in the Picture
“She shook off her sense of amazement, and tried to pretend she was watching a period play. There was a lot of flirting going on, plenty of fluttering of ivory fans and eyelashes. It was weird to think that in another two hundred years people would flirt by pole dancing, twerking, and sexting. The”
― A Murder in Time
― A Murder in Time
“In suffering we find our truest selves.”
― The Miniaturist
― The Miniaturist
“All is in divine order.”
― Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead
― Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead
“It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?)”
― Avenue of Mysteries
― Avenue of Mysteries
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