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“We sat together in contented silence, watching the comet pass above us, on toward infinity.”

“You can’t fight a river.
My back hit the stone slipway.
But half the fun is in the fighting, Stephen.”

so poetic wow

“A baby,” I said.

obviously its him

“But I suspect that, despite all that, she would still have loved him. Isabella had a habit of loving people who were not necessarily deserving of it.”

“Still, if we wept for every woman who suffered, we’d never stop weeping, would we?”

“He’s trying to get me in trouble. He thinks I want to steal his job.” “Why?” “Because I’m taller than him.”

“I was absolutely furious about it for about ten years, and then miserable for another five, and then furious again up until a few days ago. Still! We move on.”

this is also how long i hold a grudge for

“My work, ignored! My talents, squandered! My ambitions, sacrificed at the altar of mediocre men!”

mediocre men always at the scene of the crime

“Invisibility, Stephen. How many times do I have to tell you?”

i think stokes sent the letter but that would be too obvious ugh

“”Sorry—who are you?” she said after a while.”

right so she obviously did not send that letter…