“Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn’t been divulged.”
― The Marriage of Opposites
― The Marriage of Opposites
“Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.”
― Falling Angels
― Falling Angels
“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”
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“They're not poodles, they're art.”
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“Emile was not like you, not attached to houses. For you, houses are like people, are they not, they have a soul, a heart, they live and breathe. Houses remember.”
― The House I Loved
― The House I Loved
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