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"Acceptance isn’t a virtue, after all, it’s a handshake with fate that one often accepts begrudgingly."

"He was sorry about earlier, he said as he looked down at her trembling hands folded on her lap. When it got later, he always got sorry about earlier."

"Fists are the flora of the mad season."

"Most family members, it seems, only visit at the end, as if feeling the moral need to say goodbye to someone they’ve likely ignored for years."

"Sometimes this world is like red fences in the snow. There ain’t no hiding who we really are.”

"When life went bad it always seemed to go bad in a hurry. Nothing came gradually so that a man might have a chance to grit his teeth and swallow a little bit at a time. No, life had a way of heaping sh*t by the shovelful like God was up there cleaning out the horse stalls and you just happened to be standing where He threw it."

"I know now how brief the innocent, how permanent the wicked."

"He’d never drawn a line before, and maybe the lines weren’t things that were consciously drawn. Maybe the line was there all along, deep inside, and no one knew exactly where it was until he was standing at the edge of it."

"This is my punishment for having run away. God wasn’t going to forgive me for forgetting everything and trying to be the only one who ended up happy."

"You know she can’t hold her liquor. Tell her there’s something about me that you want to talk with her about, and go out drinking, just the two of you. Once you get her drunk the rest should be easy.”😠

"The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface’s roiling a reflection of what’s buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden."

"The child in my womb is, 100 percent, my brother-in-law’s."😮

"Catching the criminal seemed impossible. So I chose the latter, performing an act of penance that would satisfy Emily’s mother."

"In order for two imperfect, damaged people to live, what’s needed is an absurd ceremony that allows them to hide their imperfections."

"The idea of moving in together delighted me, but it was tinged with anxiety because, so far, we had both chosen to hide much of our pasts from the other."

"A modern reader can only shudder at our countrymen’s and countrywomen’s familiarity with death in the 1850s." 😢

"You can lie to me, if you wish, but to lie to yourself? I know why you’re here. You’re here to transfer all the guilt in your soul onto me. But you can’t do that, Gretel, because I refuse to accept it. I have my own guilt to contend with.”

Below 40° S there is no law; below 50° S there is no God. —Sailors’ maxim

"Above all, a clipper captain’s responsibility was to get his cargo safely from one port to the other, in the fastest time possible, and without making any unscheduled stops where import and custom duties or port charges would eat up the profit margins on which both he and the ship’s owners depended."

"They’re still rebuilding, or so I read in the newspapers. After all that unpleasantness, I mean.” I felt as if I might laugh out loud. It was an extraordinary way to refer to six years of war, countless millions of deaths, and all the broken places that had been left behind."

"We know that Mary Ann learned to read and do sums and that she had a quick intelligence because, had she not, a few years later in a storm at the bottom of the world, her story and the story of all those aboard Neptune’s Car would have ended in a different kind of disaster."

"We know that Mary Ann learned to read and do sums and that she had a quick intelligence because, had she not, a few years later in a storm at the bottom of the world, her story and the story of all those aboard Neptune’s Car would have ended in a different kind of disaster."

"For someone who thinks she has no skills in the acting department, you, my dear, have the one thing that every actress needs above all others.” I stared at him. I had no choice but to ask. “And what is that?” I asked. “The ability to lie.”

"We agreed to call him, if possible, and divert him from eating that poison-laced pudding,” said Jonathan."

"For the first time, I fully understood that I would have to lie about everything, every day, for the rest of my life, if I was to survive."

"“Dogs!” she said. “They’ve tracked us with dogs!”😩

"First reported by the Bakersfield Californian, the declaration revealed Sabrina and Jonathan exchanged thousands of text messages before Robert’s murder. It also revealed Sabrina had told Jonathan where her husband was working on the day of the murder."

"Jane’s mind raced. If the shooter had finished firing and was already slipping away, then she should get Pete out of here before he discovered his mistake. But what if he wasn’t running away?"

"Sabrina countered that this was all part of plan. She inferred that Robert may have been better off dead. “This was God’s time for him,” she said. “People are coming out of the woodwork saying Rob’s life left a positive impact on them. For me to be part of that, I felt so blessed."🤔

"Sabrina appeared in person nothing like she had sounded just four days earlier on the phone. “We started to get kind of thrown off. There’s something not right here."