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61 " Options. She can sleep with the door open, wander around freely, come and go without someone watching her every move. She hadn’t realized how much of a toll the years of judgment and criticism, implied and expressed, have taken on her. It’s as if she’s been walking on a wire, trying to keep her balance, and now, for the first time, she is on solid ground. "
― Christina Baker Kline , Orphan Train
62 " And even if she loses the charms, she thinks, they’ll always be a part of her. The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin. People get tattoos to have a permanent reminder of things they love or believe or fear, but though she’ll never regret the turtle, she has no need to ink her flesh again to remember the past. She had not known the markings would be etched so deep. "
63 " Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they’ve accomplished something significant—which I guess they think they have, though all I can see is a future of washing some man’s clothes stretching ahead of them. "
64 " That you are only as interesting as you are useful to someone. "
65 " Nothing encumbered movement more than fear, which was often the most difficult burden to surrender. "
66 " Se siente como un payaso de circo que se despierta una mañana y ya no quiere colocarse la nariz de goma roja. "
67 " ...that the quickest relief will come in forgetting. "
68 " people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. "
69 " the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They’re with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles. "
70 " cuando dice que no pasa nada, lo que quiere decir es que sabe que puede sobrevivir con lo mínimo. "
71 " I’ve come to think that’s what heaven is—a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on. Maybe "
72 " A lady wants to feel pretty, no matter how much money she has.” Ever "
73 " Richard knows a bar that's open until two and they go off in search of it, the two girls tottering on their heels and swaying against the men, who seem all too happy to support them. "
74 " I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display "
75 " marchamos, "
76 " Dusk softens the sharp points of trees outside my window; the sky slowly darkens, then blackens around an orb of moon. Hours later, a faint blue tinge yields to the soft pastels of dawn, and soon enough sun is streaming in, the stop-start rhythm of the train making it all feel like still photography, thousands of images that taken together create a scene in motion. "
77 " Other signs of the apocalypse proliferate. After a pop-up ad appears on her screen, Vivian announces that she plans to sign up for Netflix. She buys a digital camera on Amazon with one click. She asks Molly if she's ever seen the sneezing baby panda video on YouTube. She even joins Facebook. "
78 " The ‘c’ sounds like "
79 " mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge "
80 " she knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor. "