“How naive Lore had been, despite being the daughter of a father no one spoke of, despite the strange, incomplete conversations at her mother’s deathbed; how again and again she was caught up short by the discovery that other people had stories they didn’t tell, or told stories that weren’t entirely true. How mostly you got odd chunks torn from the whole, impossible truly to understand in their damaged form.”
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“This isn't about strength," I told him. "It's about who you're choosing to make happy.”
“The art of betrayal has not taught me to be bitter, but to not so easily misplace trust.”
“Toda traducción tiene siempre algo de traición.”
“Censorship & Torture. Netherlands, Nuenen August 17, 2016 P.C.M. Hermans”
“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.”
“In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.”
“Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends”