“She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.”
― Let the Great World Spin
― Let the Great World Spin
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Mockingjay
― Mockingjay
“I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.”
― Eleven Minutes
― Eleven Minutes
“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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