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It was the lie I’d believed in the beginning. Yejide would have a child and we would be happy forever. The cost didn’t matter. It didn’t matter how many rivers we had to cross. At the end of it all was this stretch of happiness that was
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“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”
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“How does a poet know when a poem is ended? Because it lies flat, taut; nothing can be added or subtracted. How does a woman know when a marriage is over? Because of the way her life suddenly shears off in just two directions: past and future.”
― The Stone Diaries
― The Stone Diaries
“A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
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“Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.”
― The Birthmark
― The Birthmark
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