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1 " The truth is that there is almost nothing as tiresome as unwanted love. "
― Sheila Kohler , The Perfect Place
2 " If you find the truth within you, it will save you. If you ignore it, it will destroy you. "
― Sheila Kohler , Cracks
3 " It's stupid to ban books that tell you the truth about life. "
4 " It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's. "
― Sheila Kohler , Becoming Jane Eyre
5 " The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can close the door and remove oneself, put oneself in parentheses, as it were, from the rest of humanity. It is a place for reading and thinking, where one's mind wanders easily, where time seems temporarily suspended. "
6 " Perhaps that is what growing up means: slowly realizing how right your mother has been. "
― Sheila Kohler , Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir
7 " She was full of sultry graceWith her heavy, red lips and her soft, dark curls. "
8 " Life has a way of evening out the injustices it has created. "
9 " The next morning, I lie in bed beside my sister, as we used to do as girls in the nursery. She is still sleeping soundly, an arm over her face, the light sheet like a shroud over her soft body. I think of my children waking alone in the apartment on "
