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“We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.

"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“Disappointment comes from expectation,”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing