Harriet Lane Quotes

#1. Maybe it's not really lying if you barely know you're doing it. It should be true. It's the way it should be, in an ideal world.

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#2. All this talk about "finding yourself"; often, other people show you yourself first.

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#3. I know the names of the books - their old covers bleached to palest greens or pinks by the endless cycle of summers - lined up on the shelf.

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#4. Over time, I've come to see that so much of a personality boils down to confidence: whether you have it, or not.

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#5. I found the final plot twist unsatisfying, as plot twists often are: nothing like life, which - it seems to me - turns less on shocks or theatrics than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings, or disappointments, the things that it's easy to overlook.

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#6. I've thought about the pictures often; what they show or, more accurately, don't show. Remembering what was happening elsewhere: in the distance, or behind the camera, off to one side.

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#7. I'm already someone else, but the person I turn into at these low points is someone I never imagined I could be a few years ago: someone with a hot knot of fury where her heart used to be.

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#8. The house fills with the particular atmosphere that accompanies peacefully sleeping children: a rich narcotic silence that creeps down the stairs and twines itself around the table legs.

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#9. Little by little, the city falls away, like something giving up...

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