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“He applied a jellyfish to an adversary that first time simply to say he'd personally exerted himself in this matter. Thus a symbol came to speak louder than a word, and 'Aho learned that even more powerful than a name said in fear was a name people were afraid to say.”

“So blind we humans are—so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have, as Artie did with Rhonda Lazarre that day. But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another's selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see.”

“"Let me know when I cross the line."
"There are no lines," he said. "You and I reside on the same side of the line."

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“Café Luxembourg was a twenty-minute walk but we flew there. All the crossing lights lit in our favor, all the tourists, walking three abreast, arms linked, caught sight of something in a store window that intrigued them and stepped aside.”

“Both had been waiting for the blue hour with longing, for the dusty bright days seemed inappropriate, tactless, barbaric even, in view of their aching hearts.”

It’s insane a 22 year old wrote this book…

Seven parts down, one to go😤

“It was in her nature to be proud that he was blameless, and through all her feelings there ran this vein—"I was right to defend him."’

“Would he hear of that fact which made her cheeks burn as they never used to do? And how would he feel when he heard it? But she could see as well as possible how he smiled down at the little old maid. An Italian with white mice! On the contrary, he was a creature who entered into everyone's feelings and could take the pressure of their thought instead of urging his own with iron resistance.”

“She blushed and looked at him as the garden flowers look at us when we walk forth happily among them in the transcendent evening light.”

“To ask her to be less simple and direct would be like breathing on the crystal that you want to see the light through.”

“I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands."

“Yet she liked her thoughts; a vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion finds a good in making acquaintance with life and watches its own powers with interest. Mary had plenty of merriment within.”

“Will again feared that he had gone too far, but the meaning we attach to words depends on our feeling, and his tone of angry regret had so much kindness in it for Dorothea's heart, which had always been giving out ardour and had never been fed with much from the living beings around her, that she felt a new sense of gratitude and answered with a gentle smile.”

Part 1/8 complete!

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime, keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others."

“None of us is responsible for the wonderful people we don't meet; we're only lucky when we do meet them.”

“Here she was with Paul in an expensive restaurant, drinking the best brandy, talking of ways to make life pleasant, and she wanted to cry out to him, Reach me!
Say something that means something to me, anything. Look into my face the way Mike used to do, the way Eddie used to do, and say something to show you're here with me, Caroline Bender, not just a thin girl in a chic black dress who also likes the theater.

I’m LOVING this book. It feels like reading a combined episode of Mad Men and Sex and the City.

“There's something catching about ambition."

“She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.”