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Louise held Poppy’s feverish, limp body for hours, wishing harder than she’d ever wished before that for just sixty seconds someone would hold her, but no one holds moms.
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
― Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Essays
― Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Essays
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