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“Orla’s version of religion always makes sense to Julian. But then he thinks of the Fathers, the abused choir boys, the unmarried mothers forced to give up their babies. The men who beat their wives and then head to the confession box for absolution. And he wants no part of it.”

“I feel like I’ve been trying to mold myself into the woman you’d love since we were teenagers. Never asking for too much, never pinning you down. Showing you how independent and worldly I can be. Your equal.”

“He’s stunned by his own certainty that there would always be more of her words, that he could treat them so carelessly. As though there were an inexhaustible supply. He’s come so close to being left with nothing; with only his thoughts to read back.”