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1 " Are you saying, in effect, that one can’t get on with living unless one puts ghosts from the past to rest? "
― Elizabeth George , For the Sake of Elena (Inspector Lynley, #5)
2 " He himself had died with her. "
3 " They merely fell into marriage, which, after all, was the highest form of public validation he could possibly give to a mindless act of sex with a woman he didn’t know. "
4 " Instead he fell in love. With a woman who also fell in love with him. And that tends to obviate past injustices, doesn’t it? One can hardly concentrate on destroying the self when the other becomes so much more important. "
5 " will to create. Yes”—as if she expected disagreement—“the will, because it is an act of will. It’s more than being called upon by some convenient artistic muse. It’s making a decision to offer up a bit of one’s essence to the judgement of others. "