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“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― A Woman of Substance
― A Woman of Substance
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
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― Cat’s Eye
“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
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― V.
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