The Last Time They Met
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“Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.”
Source: Sea Glass
“Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one.”
Source: The Stars Are Fire
Source: The Last Time They Met
Source: The Pilot's Wife: A Novel
“The air is sharp, and I understand why years ago sea air was prescribed as a tonic for the body.”
Source: The Weight Of Water
Source: A Wedding in December
“love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.”
Source: The Last Time They Met
“Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.”
“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”
Source: The Last Time They Met
“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”
Source: The Last Time They Met
Source: Light On Snow
“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.”
Source: Testimony
Source: Body Surfing: A Novel
“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”
Source: The Weight Of Water
Source: The Pilot's Wife
Source: Eden Close: a novel
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“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
Source: The Pilot's Wife
“And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.”
Source: The Pilot's Wife
“Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.”
Source: The Pilot's Wife
“I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.”
Source: The Pilot's Wife
“Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?”
Source: A Wedding in December: A Novel
Source: The Pilot's Wife
“But how do you ever know that you know a person?”
Source: The Pilot's Wife
Source: All He Ever Wanted: A Novel
Source: The Last Time They Met
Source: Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel
Source: The Last Time They Met
“I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?”
“Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.”
“I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.”
Source: The Weight Of Water
Source: The Pilot's Wife