Small Things Like These

“It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their uncanny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight and read your mind”

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“As they carried on and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”

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“for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation”

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“For a time he stood listening and looking down at the town, at the smoke starting up from the chimneys and the small, diminishing stars in the sky. One of the brightest fell while he was standing there, leaving a streak like a chalk mark on a board for just a second before it vanished.”

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“Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”

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“Won't the few days off do us no harm. What it is to be a man," she said, "and to have days off.”

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“What most tormented him was not so much how she'd been left in the coal shed or the stance of the Mother Superior; the worst was how the girl had been handled while he was present and how he'd allowed that and had not asked about her baby - the one thing she had asked him to do - and how he had taken the money and left her there at the table with nothing before her and the breast milk leaking under the little cardigan and staining her blouse, and how he'd gone on, like a hypocrite, to Mass.”

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