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“It seem to me there are certain things you don't have the right to forgive yourself for."
"You could always look at it from the Catholic stand-point. Peter denied his own best lover three times, and he certainly didn't go to hell for it."
"I'm not St. Peter." Max said. "And if Nora turn out to be Jesus Christ, we're all in deep trouble.”
― White Palace
"You could always look at it from the Catholic stand-point. Peter denied his own best lover three times, and he certainly didn't go to hell for it."
"I'm not St. Peter." Max said. "And if Nora turn out to be Jesus Christ, we're all in deep trouble.”
― White Palace
“He'd been obsessed for so long with Nora's unfitness for him that he'd failed to see that she might be perfectly suited to somebody else.”
― White Palace
― White Palace
“It was clear in certain ways why they were soaking their love affair in liquor. It eased the spots where their personalities scraped and softened their vision of each other, blurring their fundamental incompatibility.”
― White Palace
― White Palace
“... And you know what she does for living? She tells fortunes."
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"What do you mean, she tells fortunes? Is she a commodity broker?”
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"What do you mean, she tells fortunes? Is she a commodity broker?”
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“Nora wasn't asking him to make her over into someone else; all she wanted was to borrow a few books. Was he such an effete intellectual as to think that an exposure to literature could work some kind of marvelous transformation in her? And what if it could? What if she awoke beside him one morning, having devoured Pride and Prejudice the night before, and was miraculously transfigured into an erudite, civilized woman? Would he still even want her at all?”
― White Palace
― White Palace
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