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“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“Any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
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