Quotes From "Three Junes" By Julia Glass

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Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note. Julia Glass
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To love me, my family does not need to understand me. Julia Glass
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To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense, a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself. Julia Glass
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When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be. Julia Glass
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Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic. Julia Glass
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I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish. Julia Glass