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“More than anything, she wished she had the power to hurt him in a way that mattered.”

“She really had been blind, if she had refused to acknowledge how beautiful Sylvia was before now. The Absolute was much closer than she’d ever believed. It was not in God, not in nature. It was right here before her. Close enough to touch.
Close enough to profane.”

“Sometimes she believed she had been doomed to misery, like the victim of some fairy-tale curse. It was a devouring sort of sadness, the kind that did not grow lighter when you shared it. She had scrubbed through her life, searching for the root of it. If she spelled it out in black-and-white like one of her stories, perhaps it would all make sense”