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Our Tiny, Useless Hearts QUOTES

1 " You don't understand," she says. "It's my fault."
"Darling, don't say that. Don't even think it." I try to reach my arm around her back, but she pulls away.
She squeezes the bag to her chest. "It's true," she says. "I haven't been the perfect wife. I've done things I regret, I know that now. Stupid things. But I never thought it'd come to this." She grabs me by the arm. There's a mad kind of look that could lead to anything. "I blame myself, at least for part of it. I have to go after him. I'm not going to rot away, the way Mum did. I need him to see me. This is my last chance."
So of course I find her keys, and her phone, and I think about what to tell the girls while she books her flight to Noosa. "

― Toni Jordan , Our Tiny, Useless Hearts

2 " Because when in doubt, resort to good manners. "

― Toni Jordan , Our Tiny, Useless Hearts

3 " And he is bewildered and beatific and so pretty, prettier than a hundred roses or a thousand stars, and it strikes me there is no one like him and there never will be. Not now, not if I live to be a hundred. "

― Toni Jordan , Our Tiny, Useless Hearts