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1 " Edith learned long ago that men are drawn to women who are either undeniably beautiful or alluringly vulnerable. She’s never been either. "
― Jennie Fields , The Age of Desire
2 " He experiences everything with a childlike pleasure that she deems the essential element of a good traveler. "
3 " Someone who would bear my shock, reflect back my outrage, so I could see it better, feel more than this electric numbness. "
― Jennie Fields , The Middle Ages
4 " There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it's best just to stand tall. "
5 " Passion for something is a gift. "
― Jennie Fields , Atomic Love
6 " But passion and pride rarely occupy the same space. "
7 " America isn’t the land of the brave. It’s the land of bravado. We’re show-offs. In this country, all we desire is things. America is a place that hoards and accumulates and boasts and compares. Meanwhile too many poor people are suffering. "
8 " ... sin has always been more delicious than loyalty. "
9 " It's swallowing down the memories that turn the world so black. "
10 " Of everyone here, you are the fish I would like to catch. "
11 " ... But she sees that his mouth sucks on his mischievousness as one might savor a hard candy. "
12 " How many people in the world are so poisoned by sadness, they push love away when it's the one thing the long for most ? "
13 " People fall in love and put up with someone who gives them none of what they want. They've chosen badly, and then feel stuck. A lifetime of suffering. With a glimmer of hope that things will change. But people don't change. "
14 " Not talking is noisy. Being angry, that's noisy. "
15 " How do we survive a world where death awaits at all times. "
16 " You look peaceful,” he tells her. “Maybe that’s what a man feels when he stands before a firing squad. There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it’s best just to stand tall.” Morton "
17 " She’s heard that the glaciers in the Alaska territory hold such an extraordinary azure color they seem to have trapped the sky beneath the ice. "
18 " I'm not interested in her nose.'' ''How about the rest of her ?''''Not right now.. "
19 " Those days when I had both hands, Linda. Those were ''great'' days. "
20 " Sometimes friendships go bad, she tells herself. Relationships soften and rot like old fruit. They have their time, and then they shrivel and grow putrid. She "
