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“After meeting someone by chance and throwing off a few sparks, can there be any substance to the feeling that you've known each other your whole lives? After those first few hours of conversation, can you really be sure that your connection is so uncommon that it belongs outside the bounds of time and convention?”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“Whatever their story, Eve was breathing easy now - for the moment forgetful, vulnerable, at peace. It's a purposeful irony of life, I suppose, that we never get to see ourselves in that state. We can only pay witness to our waking reflection, which to one degree or another is always fretting or afraid. Maybe that's why young parents find it so beguiling to spy on their children when they're fast asleep.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
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“I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
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