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“The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been- which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.”

“He found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brand enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”

“ you don’t mind bringing the foreigners in.’
Hasn’t everyone to be born somewhere,’ Furlong said. ‘Sure wasn’t Jesus was born in Bethlehem.’

“ it seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.”

“ and wasn’t it sweet to be where you were and let it remind you of the past for once, despite the upset, instead of always looking on into the mechanics of the days and the trouble ahead, which might never come”

“ it was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind.

"You said to bury you, to carry a lock of your hair with me for all of my years. So you could experience immortality that way. But I... couldn't. I found you in the ashes and I thought- I thought you would prefer this more."

"How men fear things that can't be quieted."

“Man mistakes his own experiences as the canvas on which all truths are drawn. He is rarely correct in this respect.”

“It is always interesting to see how often women are described as ravenous when it is the men who, without exception, take without thought of compensation”

Thus begins the miscommunication trope.....

But it's so well written. So personal, plausible, accurate to the human experience. You think you understand what's happening, but then you see the other persons POV and you question yourself... it's so easy to miss the point.

She called me hers as if the state didn't already have claim to most of me.

A confession begins when the police perceive us as one. We must be one.

& Nicky says it's a wonder
how something that can have you hold another so
gently could be the ruin of all you might touch.

“ I’ve always thought that love was a conscious choice. People fit together because of their temperament, their likes and dislikes’s, and their goals. Looking at Aiden, I realized how wrong I’d been. I loved him in spite of all his flaws. I loved him so much that his flaws no longer seemed so wrong.”

“ Lots of people had terrible fathers. Having a monstrous mother was more difficult to comprehend.”

“all women, regardless of how cool, calm, and collected they felt internally, were at risk of falling into the trap of hysteria. Hysteria was another word for “feelings”, except that it applied specifically to feelings that men disliked.”