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"The sun was dropping then dropped, leaving a sky of frilly reds. The moon appeared too soon. The valley sloped around a teardrop-shaped lake, pink with the bizarre fuchsia bursts of the late-coming sunset. Violet heather bruised the green weedy ground as we jumped down. This was a place conceived in a burst of emotion by a melancholy boy." (109)

Ik was bang in lachen te zullen uitbarsten. Tussen huilen en lachen zat uiteindelijk niet zo veel verschil. Ze verhielden zich als vertrekken en thuiskomen - daar was ook maar één huis voor nodig. (350)

When I was sixteen my father forbade me to wear make-up. He made me go upstairs and wash it off before I could go out. 'Nadia, if all women were to wear paint on their faces, just think, there could be no more natural selection. The inevitable result would be the uglification of the species. You wouldn't want that to happen, would you?'" (77)

"das Bett ist zweifellos der sicherste Platz auf der Welt, und überdies einer der wärmsten" (60)

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