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“I wondered how it would feel to be out there, on your own, in the middle of nowhere.”

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“...you held on to my hand I felt something give in me. And suddenly I had someone I looked forward to talking to. Someone who understood how I felt. Really, really understood.”

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“I had walked away from Patrick knowing deep down that, for both of us, our relationship had become a habit, a pair of shoes you might no really love but wore because you couldn't be bothered to get new ones.”

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“I had walked away from Patrick knowing deep down that, for both of us, our relationship had become a habit, a pair of shoes you might not really love but wore because you couldn't be bothered to get new ones”

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“...anything to stop me having to sit and contemplate my own life.”

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“I was left alone with my thoughts, a bunch of unwelcome houseguests who refused to leave.”

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“I pressed my ear against the door, trying to work out if it was safe to knock, feeling furtive, as if it were I who was at fault. But all I could hear was music and muffled conversation.”

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“You and I. We are both immigrants. We both know it is hard to find your place in this world. You want to make your life better, work hard in country that is not your own—you make new life, new friends, find new love. You get to become new person! But is never a simple thing, never without cost.”

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“Just get through today, I told myself. If life had taught me one thing, it was that the answers would come soon enough.”

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“For the first time I felt overwhelmed, crushed by the knowledge that I was alone in a city that no longer welcomed me.”

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“Outside, life in Manhattan continued, oblivious, fast-moving, ignoring the detritus that piled up in the gutter.”

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“I tell you, mate, I've learned a whole new bunch of swear words today.”

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“I've messed up everything again and I don't know why I even bother trying to be something more than I was because every time I do it ends in disaster.”

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“And then he kissed me. He did it so casually that I almost didn't register what he was doing. He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips, like it was something he'd done a million times before, like it was the natural end to all our lunch dates.”

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“I had spent months wishing I had more free time. Now that I had it, I found the city was not a friendly place without money to burn.”

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“Department stores were a depressing no-no, as I no longer felt able to spend money.”

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“I don't know if it was just the joy of being surrounded by books, and quiet, but I felt like an equal here, inconspicuous, a brain, a keyboard, just another person searching for information.”

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“I was partly flattered, but mostly grateful that this implied he wasn't offended by my earlier reticence.”

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“I told myself there was no point in dwelling on something that was gone.”

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“I didn't want to hear about people I loved playing Happy Families without me while I was thousands of miles away.”

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“A bubble of giggles had started to build in my chest and I pleaded with some unseen deity to keep them under control.”

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“Given the elegance of the occasion and the spectacular nature of the setting, I should really have enjoyed the next couple of hours. I had said yes to a new experience, after all. But in truth I felt increasingly out of place among the corporate couples.”

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“I had become very good by then at smiling and saying nothing at all.”

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“She got up and she sat down, plumping cushions, checking a clock for some invisible appointment.”

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“In truth, her grief made me uncomfortable. It was too close to a place I had been, and not that long ago. I was wary of her sadness, as if it were contagious, and found myself looking for excuses to stay away from her, trying to keep myself busy so that I didn't have to absorb it too.”

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“I heard the priest murmur the familiar recitation about dust and ashes and my eyes filled with tears. I wiped them away with a handkerchief.”

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“You know,' she said, 'when you get to my age, the pile of regrets becomes so huge it can obscure the view terribly.”

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“I'm dying, Louisa. I'm an old woman and I'm not going to get an awful lot older, and my son, who I thought was lost to me, has been gracious enough to swallow his pain and his pride and reach out. Can you imagine? Can you imagine what it is to have someone do that for you?”

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“I have never really been an animal person. But I suddenly understood what comfort could be gained from burying your face in the soft pelt of another creature, the consolation of the many small tasks that you're obliged to perform for its welfare.”

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“...do not let whatever happened with that foolish family next door dim your light. You are a courageous, gorgeous, tremendously kind little creature and I shall be forever grateful that their loss has been my gain. Thank you.”

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“I simply got used to seeing people I didn't recognize wandering around.”

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“I'll be fine. Just one of those days.”

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“But the women in this ballroom looked as if they made their appearance a full-time job.”

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“I don't have a clue what any of that means,' I said. 'Most days I don't either.' He was being charming, of course.”

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“He worked for a securities firm, talking to money managers and hedge funds about how best to manage risk. He specialized, he said, in corporate equity and debt.”

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“Once we were all the same, you know? Now they say I can never know what their problems are. Because I am rich. Somehow I am not allowed to have problems. Or they are strange around me, like I am somehow different person. Like the good things in my life are an insult to others.”

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“You know what language she speaks? Hypocrisy. But it is hard to pretend you have no pain, you know? Like you do not care?”

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“I walked with nowhere particular to go, and nowhere I had to be.”

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“we all cope with these things in our own ways.”

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“I'm no expert on depression. I hadn't even understood my own after Will died. But I found Agnes's moods especially hard to fathom. My mother's friends who suffered depression—and there seemed to be a dismaying number of them—seemed flattened by life, struggling through a fog that descended until they could see no joy, no prospect of pleasure. It obscured their way forward. You could see it in the way they walked around town, their shoulders bowed, their mouths set in thin lines of forbearance. It was as if sadness seeped from them.”

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“Here is the thing about jealousy. It's not a good look.”

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“I have no idea when I'll wear it, but I have to have it.”

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“That's how I feel about clothes all the time. They talk to you, right? That dress has been screaming at me: Buy me you idiot! And maybe lay off the potato chips!”

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“Fancy a friendly beer with an exhausted corporate wage slave?”

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“For the first time since I had arrived in America I had an almost physical sense of being in the wrong place, as if I were being tugged by an invisible cords to somewhere a million miles away.”

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“For the first time since I had arrived in America I had an almost physical sense of being in the wrong place, as if I were being tugged by invisible cords to somewhere a million miles away.”

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“So I did what every girl does when she's far from home and a little sad. I ate half a packet of chocolate Digestives and called my mother.”

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“That he was there was such an unexpected bonus that I think we had both silently agreed just to enjoy being around each other. There was no need to sightsee, to tick off experiences, or to run to bed. It was, as the young people say, all good.”

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“See, now you're saying a nice thing and yet somehow it sounds like a bad thing.' 'Not bad,' he said, 'Just...different.”

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“You have to take your chances when you can.”

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