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“People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.”
“I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.”
“To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.”
“In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.”
“I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.”
“Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.”
“People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.”
“There are a great many sins in this world, none of them original.”
“...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.”
“They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.”
“Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?”
“Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.”