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41 " He wished he could somehow let Claire know this was what love was. The ability to ask for something. The desire to give someone what they asked for. "
― Alice Hoffman , The Story Sisters
42 " You don’t forget the people you love,” she told him. “That’s what I’ve realized. They just get farther away. Like a spyglass turned around. "
43 " Evil always did that, appeared when you least expect it. "
44 " She knew that sometimes when you were supposed to feel lucky, all you felt was despair. You were guilty just because you had managed to live. For reasons you couldn’t understand, that made no sense whatsoever, you were the one left unscathed. "
45 " The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can’t even see it, shifting in the dark. "
46 " Some words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn’t unknow. "