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1 " Anna’s conclusions were these: That fire is beautifully cruel. That fusion occurs only at a specific heat. That blood, in fact, can boil. That the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, and the disorder it tends toward is flammable. That a heart will burn. And burn and burn and burn. "
― Jill Alexander Essbaum , Hausfrau
2 " Anna loved and didn’t love sex. Anna needed and didn’t need it. Her relationship with sex was a convoluted partnership that rose from both her passivity and an unassailable desire to be distracted. "
3 " There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next. "
4 " It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you. "
5 " A man can smell a woman's sadness "
6 " Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach. "
7 " The deepest sleep is meant only for children and perfect fools. "
8 " I’ve never been nearly as alone as I always say I am "
9 " A secret's safest hiding place is in the open. "
10 " But there are times to talk to the dead, times when the dead want to talk. "
11 " Ghosts,” Doktor Messerli continued, “aren’t always the spirits of the human dead bound to the earth. A ghost can be the residual feeling that follows an act you have accomplished but feel bad about. Or the act itself. Something you’ve been or done that you cannot escape. "
12 " Shames the shadow of love she thought "
13 " Let’s get you one, Anna.”“A lover?”Edith rolled her eyes. “No. A fucking houseplant. Yes, a lover.” Edith smirked. “It’ll cheer you up! "
14 " No one is promised a tomorrow. She had been wrong about every man she loved or said she loved. She’d been wrong about everything. She’d entered into her life in the middle of its story. She had confused herself with the actress who portrayed her. "
15 " There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge. "
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17 " The only thing we need to know is this: they bring home a paycheck. "
18 " Whores, Anna once read, make the very best wives. They are accustomed to the varying moods of men, they keep their broken hearts to themselves, and easy women always ease through grief. "
19 " I’m neither plain nor pretty. I’m irrevocably average. "
20 " Events don't always obey rules of time and space. Sometimes the mere thought of a certain friend will cause her to telephone after months of no communication. Or perhaps a man wonders whether he should leave his wife and in the next instant he turns on the radio and hears a notice for apartments. No coincidence is a chance. Synchronicity is the external manifestation of reality. "
