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1 " When you think about it, everything has been said before, in one way or another. It's only our experience of it that makes it new. "
― Lauren Willig , The English Wife
2 " It wasn't the big decisions that set the course of one's life; it was the slow accretion of all the little ones. "
3 " It hurt to kill a dream, like tearing petals off a rose in full bloom. "
4 " It was very hard to rant while accepting a cup of tea. "
5 " His look felt like a touch "
6 " She could feel herself pressing the details into memory, saving them like dried flowers kept in a spinster's chest, relics of a past that might have been, of a future that never was. "
7 " What a very odd thing,' said Janie, 'to live and leave no mark. "
8 " I don't believe anything's really inevitable until it happens. We just call it inevitable to make ourselves feel better about it, to excuse ourselves for not having done anything. "
9 " She could only hold on to her husband with both hands and promise herself that the best way to keep someone was to let him go. "
10 " The green-painted shutters had been closed over the windows, giving the house the look of a comfortable matron who had knotted off over her knitting. "
11 " Love is supposed to ennoble the soul, not degrade it. "
