Meredith Marple Quotes

#1. Strategically placed at the level of her T3 vertebra, just below the deepest back on any of her blouses, was a tattoo of the human brain. He had to look away or else he'd jump her bones all over again. The brain got him every time.

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#2. Death wasn't something to romanticize. It was something to stave off, to avoid, to fight as long as possible. Even though she had her battles with melancholy, she never seriously considered suicide. Something in her trusted that there would be an upswing and it would be worth waiting for.

Meredith Marple

#3. The only groups I willingly joined were spontaneous, short-lived, and usually game-playing.

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#4. He didn't fold his arms around her, and he didn't hold her close. Instead, he gave her a kiss that suggested a future.

Meredith Marple

#5. The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.

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#6. I was feeling sorry for myself and immediately assumed her life was going better than mine. Ridiculous, of course - no one can know what a stranger's life is like. Often we don't even know what a loved one's life is like. We all keep so many things to ourselves.

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#7. Our inner selves go on without us sometimes, trusting we'll catch on eventually. Sometimes it's too late when we do - too late to let the other person know what we've learned.

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#8. If his choice now was to risk either sunshine with a chance of rain or heatstroke with a chance of tornado, he'd go with the sunshine.

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#9. How beautiful it is that I need more lifetimes than this to say "I love you.

Meredith Marple