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21 " In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had very few choices in their lives. Most things happened to you. Most things rolled right over you and then kept on going. "
― Alice Hoffman , Local Girls
22 " But maybe a broken heart seemed a simple price to pay, the way that all costs that must be settled in the future appear, until they suddenly come due. "
23 " You had to wonder who all these people in their cars were leaving behind and who they were driving toward, and if they knew that in the distance, the echo of their tires on the asphalt sounded like a river, and that to someone like me, it could seem like the miracle I'd been looking for. "
24 " They'll never meet him. They'll never know that its actually possible for a boy to be so boring you'd agree to kiss him just to get him to shut up. I should get paid to listen to him talk when he calls on the phone. I should get a dollar fifty a hour. Minimum. "
25 " When they got back in the Corvette, Gretel fished around in her shopping bad. "What is this?"She had chosen a black tank suit, but somehow a pink bikini had wound up among her purchases."Don't be mad," Margot pleaded."I'm not wearing this." Gretel tossed the bikini back in the bag. All the same, she couldn't help but notice the fabric was the same exact shade as the palest climbing roses. The tint of seashells on a deserted beach, or the mouth of someone you might want to kiss. "
26 " Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait. "
27 " We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. "
28 " Somehow, I knew how alone he felt, and it gave me shivers to think that alienation could be a shared experience. "
29 " What was life anyway? Only a continuous vale of sadness and tears. "
30 " ...and taking their time, walking slowly, like tourists, even though this is a landscape they know inside out. The streetlamps cast a hazy glow, the light of a dream you're not quite finished waking from. Fireflies drift across the lawns. "
31 " She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there’s nobody else in this world that she’ll ever really know, not truly. "
32 " That's how we got our dog, Revolver. We thought he was crazy about us, but it turns out that Labrador retrievers adore everyone. Well, maybe that's what love is, a state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares. "
33 " She thought I was impossible, but she loved me anyway, which is the best sort of love there is. "
34 " It was November, that quiet, gray time of the year when you feel like holding someone's hand. Gretel had her own hands clasped together, like a corpse. "