“Take your chance. Live a life of no regrets. And don’t blame yourself if it goes wrong. People have their own journey, and it has nothing to do with you.”
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Review Time: Before She Knew Him
“I had two lives before I met Henrietta Mazur, both of them simple, with their own comforts and rewards. And from out of nowhere she’s come along and turned those two lives into one. One complicated mess of a life.”
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Review Time: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things.”
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Review Time: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”
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Review Time: Since We Fell
“We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing’s built to last, not even shame.”
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Review Time: The Rules Do Not Apply
“In the last few months, I have lost my son, my spouse, and my house. Every morning I wake up and for a few seconds I’m disoriented, confused as to why I feel grief seeping into my body, and then I remember what has become of my life.”
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Review Time: The Next Accident
“We’re all looking for something to believe in, and someone to blame.”
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Review Time: Into the Water
“No one liked to think about the fact that the water in that river was infected with the blood and bile of persecuted women, unhappy women; they drank it every day.”
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Review Time: The Perfect Husband
“‘Til death do us part’ could be sooner than she thinks.”
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Review Time: All the Missing Girls
“People were like Russian nesting dolls – versions stacked inside the latest edition. But they all still lived inside, unchanged, just out of sight.”
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