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What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

Book by Laura van den Berg · 10 quotes · Change, Life, Pain

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“It wasn't that she wanted so badly to remain in Paris; more than anything, she was incapable of deciding, of striking in a different, unknown direction, and was frustrated by her inability to release herself from her life as easily as her husband had, a top spiraling across a flat surface.”

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“After all, the media was flooded with stories about people suffering from post-traumatic stress; his behavior had seemed understandable. It wasn't until the Paris riots that she realized how much he'd changed, as though some dark seed buried inside him had found the ideal conditions for growth. And after he left, she was forced to recognize how she'd changed as well, her determined cheerfulness and willful ignorance, her ability to read the newspaper and then push the unpleasantness from her mind (how typical, how bourgeoisie, how very American, she thought now), as though the world wasn't shifting very much at all, as though everything wasn't disintegrating beneath them.”

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“What did the woman tell you?" she asked. "What did she say when she took my hand?" "That she could see everything inside you," he said. "And then she told me what was there." Juliana didn't press any further. She wasn't at all sure she wanted to know what was inside of her.”

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