Rufi Thorpe Quotes

#1. What I had always loved most about literature was the way it eased my own loneliness. Even

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#2. She carried herself like a dishonored queen. Even the way she held her head at an angle as she considered the buildings around us seemed watched and pretentious, and I thought about my mother saying there was something toxic about being very beautiful. It must be terrible to be a woman.

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#3. It wasn't that Lorrie Ann was becoming a Goody Two-shoes. It wasn't that she wanted to be perfect or loved or approved of. No. She wanted something much more dangerous. She wanted meaning. And she thought it could be gotten by following the rules.

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#4. yes, yes, yes. I was and am awful and terrible.

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#5. How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?

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#6. What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.

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#7. Whatever it is that hurts you, don't talk to anyone about it.

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#8. What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that it would still be funny.

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#9. My life was worth nothing except the books I read,

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#10. It didn't matter how terrified I was. It didn't matter that there was no solution to the problem we faced. We would simply have to face it anyway. we didn't have to be brave or heroic, we merely had to persist. And I found that I could do that.

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#11. Sure, and fatherhood is super important too. I'm not trying to make this a women-only club by any means. Just that even men rarely view their role in child rearing as the most important thing they do, when in fact it is clearly the most important thing that anybody does.

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