Martine Leavitt Quotes

#1. And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.

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#2. It is life that hurts you not death.

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#3. Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.

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#4. You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

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#5. We mean you don't love any men," Gretta said in her even, matter-of-fact voice.
"You know very well that I adore all men," I said. "I have always thought them to be the dearest of things.

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#6. I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him as good cloth, rich fabric that wants only to be embroidered upon. And perhaps, if you will do that, you will see that you love Tailor yourself.

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#7. Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.

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#8. Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

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#9. Just because you see something doesn't mean it's really there.

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#10. I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true.

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#11. Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection
the kind that never demands it of others.

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#12. Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said.
"Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.

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#13. She knew she had never been truly alive until she met him, and never so happy and content with her lot until she was touched by the sorrow of him.

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#14. These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.

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#15. Susie: Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason than that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.

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#16. Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.

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#17. In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples.

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#18. Susie: Okay, Calvin. But you know what? You can't say, youcan'texpectanythingfrommeI'mbroken! And turn around the next minute and say, ohwoeismeeverybodytreatsmelikeI'mbroken! Which one is it? I can treat you the way I really feel, or I can treat you careful.
Me: Real. Just be real.

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