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Adele
is on page 90 of 546
"It had already happened so many times in my life (my wedding day comes to mind) that I thought I was out of the woods, not realizing I'd merely paused on the edge of another narrow precipice in the midst of a long, long fall."
— Oct 19, 2015 06:59PM
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Adele
is on page 347 of 546
"The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep."
— Oct 29, 2015 10:55AM
Adele
is on page 309 of 546
"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky."
— Oct 29, 2015 08:39AM
Adele
is on page 306 of 546
"Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves. And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious. This is what it means to be a beast in the kingdom."
— Oct 29, 2015 08:31AM
Adele
is on page 114 of 546
"I could see that the whole idea and business of Childhood was nothing guaranteed. it seemed to me, in fact, like something more or less invented by white people and stuck onto the front of grown-up life like a frill on a dress."
— Oct 21, 2015 03:12PM
Adele
is on page 9 of 546
"I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience." Think I'm going to enjoy this book.
— Oct 14, 2015 09:11AM
