Top 23 Josephine Humphreys Quotes
#1. It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can never deliver on its promises.
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#2. The shape of his head, the set of his shoulders are a pattern she could recognize and love out of a crowd of shadows.
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#3. When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.
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#4. I read Butterfly's Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice - and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.
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#6. You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.
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#8. Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and loss: a sense of living among other human beings. They'll give up dreams for that.
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#9. It isn't that nothing is left. It is that what remains is such an old sad ghost of the thing that used to be, and he can't bear lying down with the vestiges.
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#10. He was in a state of wonder most of the time, the way a young boy is
engaged by the most ordinary things as if they were great miracles.
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#11. That was one helpful thing he said to her, the first thing that caught her attention. "Start your life." Because she had assumed that her life was over.
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#12. Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.
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#13. Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.
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#14. Nineteen and living a life not his own, he was sure enough of his worth to put his name to his work and let it stand for him. Did not even have a wife yet, according to Queen, so it was not love that set him to cutting the pine, but a trust and a longing.
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#15. People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.
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#16. She knew what she looked like - someone at the edge of catastrophe, someone already flinching from a blow that had not yet been delivered.
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#17. I'm not sure whether or not any love matches are made in heaven, but some do suggest heaven had a hand in the introductions.
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#18. But Iris walks through the project every day. Alice asked, "Isn't it dangerous?" Iris said, "I don't know. I guess it could be, if you're afraid. I'm not because it's just something I've always done. I mean, if you live in it you aren't scared of it.
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#19. Her body was heavy and tired, and she thought, I can't carry myself another step into this life.
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#20. You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.
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#21. Marry me,' he said. [ ... ]
'No,' she said. 'It scares me.' [ ... ]
'What aspect of it scares you?'
'The loneliness.
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#23. Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.
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