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01c. 1964 AD

He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

Christina Baker Kline / quote

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02c. 1964 AD

I want to say, Christina, that you are ... unusual. And somehow..." her voice trails off. "Your mind-- your curiosity-- will be your comfort.

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03c. 1964 AD

How did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost without my realizing it...

Christina Baker Kline / quote

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04c. 1964 AD

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live

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05c. 1964 AD

It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.

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06c. 1964 AD

I want each day to last forever . . . It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past. Even in the midst of a pleasurable outing I'm aware of how ephemeral it is.

Christina Baker Kline / quote

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07c. 1964 AD

If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

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08c. 1964 AD

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

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09c. 1964 AD

I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.

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10c. 1964 AD

When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.

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11c. 1964 AD

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

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12c. 1964 AD

This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair.

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13c. 1964 AD

I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.

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14c. 1964 AD

That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.

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15c. 1964 AD

It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.

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16c. 1964 AD

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

Christina Baker Kline / quote

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