“Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?”
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“I felt something stir within me. It took a moment to recognise it. Anger.”
“Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.”
“Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.”
“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.”
“A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.”
“When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?”