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«"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really. And then there's the thick true, smothering hate we have for those we know best. And that, Vera-baby, that's what I had for you. That's what bubbled up in me and stuck."»

«"It's not true, though, right? Dad loves us."
"He loves me," Daphne says crisply. "Your relationship with him is your own business.»

«This house, though. The outside of Vera was shaped like the inside of this house. This was the house her father had built with his two strong hands. This was the goldfish tank where she'd grown to the size she would always be, even after her mother gave her away to the world.»