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“My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
― Open Secrets
― Open Secrets
“This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all.
The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember.
This is what happens.
...
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.”
― Runaway: Stories
The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember.
This is what happens.
...
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.”
― Runaway: Stories
“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again. ”
― Away from Her
― Away from Her
“For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief. ”
― The Love of a Good Woman
― The Love of a Good Woman
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