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1 " Once we know that something turned out all right, that we navigated a rough patch more or less intact, it becomes harder to pity our younger self or remember the grief and confusion, the dread of the disaster that didn’t happen, the panic of the deer frozen in the headlights of the car that stopped in time. "
― Francine Prose , The Vixen
2 " I felt that I was hearing the answer to a question that I hadn’t known enough to ask. "
3 " After all, she’d written a book, for which she deserved some respect, though not as much as she would have if The Vixen were better. "
4 " One consolation of age is that you no longer think that everyone is staring at you, probably because they aren’t. "
5 " The thought crossed my mind, lightly and not long enough to do any lasting damage. "
6 " She’d written a book, and I hadn’t, even if her novel was worse than anything I would have written. "