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“Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.”
― The Casual Vacancy
― The Casual Vacancy
“She turned her face into the pillow and let her tears drain into it, and felt that yet more was lost, when there was no witness to her sorrow.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Some things exist in our lives for but a brief moment. And we must let them go on to light another sky.”
― The Wrath and the Dawn
― The Wrath and the Dawn
“Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?”
― Suicide Notes
― Suicide Notes
“Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.”
― The Casual Vacancy
― The Casual Vacancy
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