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"some thing must suffer so that another thing can have comfort"

"there's a measure of satisfaction in the fact that if she dies lonely it won't be for want of trying."

"there were four miscarriages before i came along, and after the second doctors advised against further pregnancies. my mother talked of adoption, but my father was insistent that he must have a son of his own blood, and the universe responded as it does when men refuse to understand what nature is trying to tell them: it gave him the wrong kind of child, and it took away his wife."