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“I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.”
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“And be thinking, remembering. Trying to. All difficult dark stuff, stories stuffed away, like old socks into old pillowcases. Not quite knowing the weight of truth in them much more. And things that I have let be a long time in the interests of happiness, or at least that daily contentment that I was once I do believe mistress of”
― On Canaan's Side
― On Canaan's Side

“I walked with them, as crowds have that effect on me, I want to do what they do, to journey towards some point of revelation, which of course never comes”
― Mistaken
― Mistaken

“Our smiles mostly for each other, and every stranger a possible demon or bear, till they proved otherwise”
― On Canaan's Side
― On Canaan's Side

“I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.”
― Mistaken
― Mistaken

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