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slaughterhouse90210:

“The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperone, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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slaughterhouse90210:

“I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they’re the things that matter.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

slaughterhouse90210:

“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

slaughterhouse90210:

“It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did.”
― Ron Rash, Serena

slaughterhouse90210:

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals