“She read novels and underlined passages that felt special to her in big streaks of red pen. These novels were about civilised women who holidayed in Europe, women whose lives weren't rotten or shameful. Someday, she thought, someday. She would burn her face off to become one of these women.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“You should be grateful that you're young."
"I want youth to be over. I don't like it." She thought of the hours she spent on the stone bench waiting for youth to pass.”
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“He was the sole link to a life Natasha felt she could never fully be part of. Already she suspected love was over for her.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“At least she was charming, she assured herself. But charm was thin compensation for a life of constant, lurking terror.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“I don't like you anymore," she announced.
"You don't like anything, Natasha."
It was true. One day, as a challenge, she set herself the task of writing down everything she didn't like. She filled an entire copybook with her tiny, hateful handwriting.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“She wanted to tell the truth and also she wanted to hurt him which was, occasionally, the same thing.”
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“Let me tell you about my childhood."
"Natasha, please . . . You have to rise above your circumstances."
"I'm not a character in one of your films. It's not that easy."
"You must try."
"What if I don't want to?”
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“Paul preached the mystery of the indwelling Christ as 'Christ in you, the hope and the Glory.' Those who cannot, who will not, understand this mystery will remain babes in Christ, if that. They cannot follow in his footsteps to become bodhisattvas, world saviors and quickening spirits.”
Source: The Mystic's Path Home: Teachings of the Ascended Masters
“Everybody with their own solitary pains, their own endless private afflictions, but nobody looking anybody directly in the eye and asking what they were. Let's turn up the music and pretend we're having a hell of a time in here.”
Source: Show Them a Good Time
“She considered the possibility that, after a long wait, she was finally falling apart.”
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