Elizabeth Brundage Quotes

#1. I often ask the question: Is it impossible to have a simple life?
The world is not simple, Claire said.
The world is not simple. Joe repeated the phrase like the line of a great poem.

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#2. The soul sees what the eye cannot,

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#3. You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

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#4. It's hard to see what's good, what's right, when you're in the middle of it.

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#5. Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.

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#6. The trick to hiding something, she'd told him once, is to put it right out in plain sight.

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#7. His life in general had been a neatly wrapped package of lies.

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#8. Let me tell you about love. Love is a kind of madness and you would follow it anywhere, you don't care.

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#9. Beauty depends on the unseen, George quoted the artist, the visible upon the invisible.

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#10. There was the dream of happiness and then there was what was real.

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#11. People just want to be happy, she thought.

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#12. But you couldn't really start over. That was a huge, modern lie invented by talk-show hosts. Sure you could change things that improved your life, but all the bad stuff lingered. It lingered in your body compromising your organs.

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#13. Attraction is composed of desire and danger.

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#14. Whenever he was around, she'd get this look on her face, this kind of radiance. She was a beer poured too fast, her golden liquid spilling over the edge.

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#15. Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible

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#16. He wanted to dig a hole and put the past inside it and cover it back up again. He didn't know if flowers would grow there or not. He hoped they would.

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#17. Wooed by a vivid cover, she picked one up and leafed through it. She loved thee way it smelled, the ink, the fine paper, the oversized photographs.

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#18. As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.

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#19. Too many choices, that's the problem. Sometimes you get to a point, you know?"
She looked at his face. His eyes seemed distant. "What do you mean?"
He shook his head. "You wake up one day and nothing's the same. It's like you're in the wrong life or something. I don't know how to explain it.

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#20. She cried and he held her and he cried too. He didn't think that either could say what they were crying about, but it was something they needed to do, right now, together, and then, quite suddenly, they were laughing, hard, brash laughter that came up from someplace deep.

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#21. It was the simplest thing to do, loving someone, only it was the hardest thing, too, because it hurt.

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#22. It was early still, the sky white, nude.

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#23. Adults make mistakes too.

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#24. By the way, I've decided there's no such thing as a simple life. It's futile to even pursue one.

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#25. Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you're in trouble, just remember you're your own best friend.

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#26. In situations of crisis, it was always best to rely on routine.

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#27. There was no disguise for real love, she thought, and suddenly understood all that she did not have.

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#28. People wanted to be redeemed, she thought. Everyone did. We're only human.

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