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If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been.Rebecca Makkai
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By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.Rebecca Makkai
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The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.Rebecca Makkai