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Carol is on page 143 of 192 of The Old Fire
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The Old Fire


Carol
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The Old Fire




Carol
Carol is on page 173 of 208 of Hunger
The past sees through all attempts at disguise. That night I was awakened by my sister’s scream. … The full moon shone through the window…. I heard my sister sob and then fell silent. I looked carefully at the door, but I noticed nothing. Then I understood that his ghost would never visit me. I was, one might say, the lucky daughter. But I lay awake until morning, waiting; part of me is waiting still.
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Hunger

Carol
Carol is on page 159 of 208 of Hunger
Sansan had nowhere else to go. Nothing remained of the stories and meals and people they’d known, nothing but what they remembered. Their world lived in them, and they would be the end of it. They had no solace, and no burden, but each other.
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Hunger

Carol
Carol is on page 140 of 208 of Hunger
He looked over his shoulder to make sure that Charles was still asleep and would not hear the conversation. “Is something wrong?” he asked.
“We’re getting old,” she said. “How will we make the space in our minds for everything we’ll need to learn here?”
Without a pause, he answered her, “We will forget.”
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Carol
Carol is on page 72 of 158 of The Vegetarian
He studied his wife, a picture of responsible compassion as she carefully approached their son with the medicine. She’s a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.
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The Vegetarian

Carol
Carol is on page 382 of 482 of Independent People
For four lucrative years and more [the war] went on, and the longer it lasted, the greater was the gratification it aroused….Many, especially those of a nice ingenuous nature, never called it by any other name than the Blessed War, for Icelandic goods were still rising in price abroad, and on the Continent whole nations were fighting, among other things, for the honour of importing them.
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Independent People

Carol
Carol is on page 129 of 208 of Hunger
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Hunger

Carol
Carol is on page 107 of 208 of Hunger
Somehow I had lost both of my daughters. If I had learned English, I wondered, would I have been able to follow them? I will never know. But my daughters turned into women and I was left behind, stumbling after their voices.
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Hunger

Carol
Carol is on page 103 of 208 of Hunger
It was as if I were a member of a dying tribe, and those with whom I cared to communicate were growing fewer and fewer. But who does not experience this as they grow older…. Haven’t we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?
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Hunger

Carol
Carol is on page 80 of 208 of Hunger
But she had developed a sudden and brilliant genius for upsetting him. So many years of pleasing him had given her this ability. With me she remained obedient. I prided myself on this, until I recognized it as an emblem of indifference. My pale love would never interest her. Tian was her true opponent, and I was only a moth that fluttered around the brilliant bulb of her rebellion.
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Hunger


Carol
Carol is on page 68 of 208 of Hunger
Afterwards, she ignored me as she swept around the house, her full lips closed in a faint sneer, with an expression of great privacy. She had the ability to become impenetrable through sheer volition.
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Hunger

Carol
Carol is on page 66 of 208 of Hunger
There was a hole in our house, like a great mouth, filled with love words and lost objects.
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Hunger

Carol
Carol is on page 62 of 208 of Hunger
As I looked at my daughter’s face, I began to understand that to love another was to be a custodian of that person’s decline — to know this fate, hold onto it, and live.
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Hunger

Carol
Carol is on page 56 of 208 of Hunger
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Hunger

Carol
Carol is on page 41 of 208 of Hunger
I remembered the night of Tian’s brilliant recital — we had been so lighthearted, so happy, walking arm in arm through the sparkling street. We had inventoried our desires, caressing and counting them as if they were prayer beads. It must have been this admission of hope that had been our downfall.
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Hunger

Carol
Carol is on page 20 of 208 of Hunger
Behind this painted wall, beneath this layer of new sheathing, hides the story of our lives together. I have been silent many years, and my daughters have chosen to forget, but our family story lingers here. It waits under the floor; it has slid into the crawl space, wound around the stubborn beams and girders that were already old thirty years ago, when Tian and I first came to live in Brooklyn.
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Hunger


Carol
Carol is on page 303 of 352 of Dead and Alive: Essays
But I wonder if we don’t assume too much when we imagine we can ever know in advance what kind of a sentence will reach a suffering person in their suffering. How can we be sure which sentences will give a suffering person strength for the fight? Nelson Mandela read Soul on Ice in that cell on Robben Island. He also read the Collected Works of William Shakespeare.
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Dead and Alive: Essays

Carol
Carol is on page 282 of 352 of Dead and Alive: Essays
And the more precisely you describe and understand the past the less likely you are to misread and vulgarize and misapprehend the present. The narcissism of the present is that it wants the past to conform to its present demands. You can’t learn the lessons of the past if you rewrite them in the retelling.
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Dead and Alive: Essays

Carol
Carol is on page 279 of 352 of Dead and Alive: Essays
People reveal more about themselves in one week on Instagram than I’ve done on the page in twenty years.
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Dead and Alive: Essays


Carol
Carol is on page 238 of 352 of Dead and Alive: Essays
[A] large part of the wonder of Hilary [Mantel] was that she…never let go of any part of herself. They were all still alive and pulsating inside her: the angry child who hated childhood but loved the beaches of Budleigh, the young woman eager for escape, the potential mother, the medium, the healthy person, the ex-wife, the unknown novelist, the lawyer, historian, journalist. She was populated by many ghosts.
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Dead and Alive: Essays

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