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“Susannah, since the day I met you, I wanted to let you know that you are a spill of gleaming gold on my otherwise dull and pointless world.”

“My own feelings are a hedge of briars that I can’t bring myself to touch. There are so many unhappy people. I just don’t want to find out that I am one of them.”

“All my life she has been my only role model, my greatest aspiration. But since I started to see her as a person beyond a parent, I have seen her as a grave misfortune. And now I cannot go back to the way I saw her before. Without all the mysticism of being my mother, she is just a woman, exactly like me, only with less time ahead of her, and, I’m beginning to think, all the same uncertainty.”