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‘The Master,’ she said, in English, and Brunetti watched her go all misty-eyed, the way she always did when she talked about Henry James. Did it make sense, he wondered, to be jealous? Jealous of a man who, it seemed to him from what Paola
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Henry James.Paola's literary hero
“immigrants are artists because they create a life, a future, from nothing but a dream.”
― A Dream Called Home
― A Dream Called Home
“We were already living in some kind of Hell in this strange place of broken beauty.”
― The Distance Between Us
― The Distance Between Us
“Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.”
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“And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but one to live up to.”
― The Distance Between Us
― The Distance Between Us
“My mother says when I get older my dusty hair will settle and my blouse will learn to stay clean, but I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain…I have begun my own quiet war. Simple. Sure. I am the one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate.”
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Clarissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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