If his grief had undone him after all, at the thought of the tale of her, the tragedy of it—if his eyes stung with tears for an impetuous soldier who had chosen her death unflinching—then he refused to acknowledge it. Let the rain take what
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“I don’t want to be Marghe the anthropologist who examines seashells on the beach and moves on. I don’t think I am her anymore. But I don’t know who I want to be.”
― Ammonite
― Ammonite
“It’s as though all I am is my job. All I am is an empty shell. I look all right from a distance, but up close there’s nothing there, nothing behind the pretty whorls and brittle exterior. But I don’t have that job anymore. No shell. But if I don’t have that, then what do I have?”
― Ammonite
― Ammonite
“Sometimes I think she came to care more for me than she had done for anyone for a long time. But she wouldn’t let me go.”
― Ammonite
― Ammonite
“There was nothing noble about dying a slow and painful death, surrounded by nothing but empty silence.”
― Ammonite
― Ammonite
“I’ve screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change. I guess that means I’ve grown up now.”
― City of Ashes
― City of Ashes
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