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You have to do what your heart dictates, " Vivian says. "Do you believe that?"" Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?Anita Shreve
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Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.Anita Shreve
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Old soul." I laughed. "You're Thirty.""It's not the years, it's the experience, " he paused.Maria V. Snyder
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And yet. And yet. If asked - if pressed - Honora would have to say she is strangely content. It's an odd feeling that she cannot describe to anyone - not to her mother and certainly not to Sexton, whose unhappiness seems to have no bounds, whose unhappiness is defined now by what he does not have, which is almost everything. He will always, in his mind, be the salesman who no longer has anything to sell. A man who longs for the open road but who cannot ever take it. Whereas Honora, oddly, now has more purpose than she ever did before. She is a dutiful wife who tends to her husband in spite of his weaknesses. She is a woman with ingenuity. She is a woman without illusions. She is a woman who, above all, is too busy trying to make a go of it to fret about her marriage.Anita Shreve
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One day a man has a job, and life is full of possibilities. The next day the job and the car are gone, and the man cannot look his wife in the eye.Anita Shreve
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[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--'[ Opal] 'Was?'[J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.Maria V. Snyder
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And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him.Anita Shreve