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“Knowing he was suffering pained me. That’s the way love tangles you up. I couldn’t stop loving him, and couldn’t shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him— but I also didn’t have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.”
― The Paris Wife
― The Paris Wife
“I can't see how I'll make it a year this way," he said.
"It seems impossible, I know. But when we're old and doddering, this year will seem like a blink.”
― The Paris Wife
"It seems impossible, I know. But when we're old and doddering, this year will seem like a blink.”
― The Paris Wife
“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
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“People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.”
― The Paris Wife
― The Paris Wife
“We knew what we had and what it meant, and though so much had happened since for both of us, there was nothing like those years in Paris, after the war. Life was painfully pure and simple and good, and I believed Ernest was his best self then. I got the very best of him. We got the best of each other.”
― The Paris Wife
― The Paris Wife
Susan’s 2025 Year in Books
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672 books
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859 books
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550 books
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883 books
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761 books
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271 books
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