Margot Livesey Quotes

#1. If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

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#2. Since the accident, Jonathan had noticed, she held on to things, a doorframe, a chair, as it either she or the world needed steadying.

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#3. He said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life

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#4. You can molest someone without touching them, without even saying anything. Just the inappropriate desire can be harmful.

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#5. Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.

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#6. loves was about the people who loved you

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#7. Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down.

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#8. E had found himself thinking that marriage was not merely an empty ritual. It was a plea for patience on the part of those involved, and for the mercy on the part of bystanders.

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#9. She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them made her want to hide. What I loved about them, their clarity, was for her duplicity. Behind an innocent 2,or 5, or 9, she spied a mass of traps and pitfalls.

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#10. Running, I soon realized, was the best way to stay ahead of fear.

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#11. So often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was the other way round: i was hiding from them.

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#12. A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning, and the story she tells is as complicated as life itself. This is a richly satisfying novel.

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#13. Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.

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#14. She knew she oughtn't to scold but she couldn't bear such a hyperbole. People couldn't live without food and air or shelter and money. Romantic love was an extra, nice if it came along, but definitely superfluous to the main requirements of existence.

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#15. As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

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#16. If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more direct methods, will strike you as being more available.

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#17. All along, he'd been looking in the wrong direction, trying to make time stand still, to re-create the past, but everything in life taught the opposite.

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