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“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.”

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“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.”

"There's a point, around age twenty," Bedap said, "when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."

“Garab saw a much larger universe than most people were capable of seeing, and it made them blink. The light-eyed boy watched her steadily. In his facel she saw her joy. What she offered, what she had offered for a whole lifetime, what no one had ever shared with her, he took, he shared. He was her brother, across the gulf of fifty years, and her redemption.”

“It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.”

“To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.”

“I thought of how the world can be anything and how sad it is that it's this.”

“All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
(So why grieve?
The worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love! must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.”

“Only then (nearly out the door, so to speak) did I realize how unspeakably beautiful all of this was, how precisely engineered for our pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime thing”