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“Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place”

“I wouldn’t wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hand that claims her”

“Men tell stories. Women get on with it”

“But Isabelle…. she doesn’t know how to concede defeat. She hurled herself at the cold wall of our father’s disinterest for years, trying desperately to gain his love”

“Or maybe she had imagined that memory, constructed it from the threads of her own need and wrapped it tightly around her shoulders. She didn’t know anymore.”