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“Lady Harriet was to be his undoing. Women didn’t laugh at him. Women fawned over him. He ought to have hated it, yet some obviously ill part of his mind whispered that he’d gladly make a fool of himself to get to hear her laugh like that again.”

Ugh this is the romance, I love.

“Love, she realized, is not a feeling but a deed. It is the man waiting at home with her two children, who will change the sheets on the bed and count out her pills and remember her birthday, even after she’s died.”

“You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

“I’m not going to give you a tip,” the bearded man was saying to the driver of the taxi, “because you talk too much. Not everybody wants to hear about your new baby, you know …”

“Our parents did not depend on us for their sense of identity. They had their lives and we had ours. Bless them”

Ann Patchett is so gifted, it honestly blows my mind. The way she writes is so incredibly beautiful it’s honestly unfair for one person to contain so much talent.