Tara Conklin Quotes

#1. Did the color of his skin matter? No, Lina decided, wouldn't his racial ambiguity be a strength? Wasn't this a history from which they had all emerged, every American, black and white and every shade in between?

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#2. Let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers

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#3. ...Lina longed suddenly for a sliver of that must have been her mother's allure, and talent, and passion, and willingness to embrace her own complicated life.

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#4. Is it too much to wish for such a life? Is it too little?

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#5. Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run.

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#6. Truth was multilayered, shifting; it was different for everyone, each personal history carved unique from the same weighty block of time and flesh.

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#7. The harder road. Because she was a woman? Because she was short? Because her law school ranked top-ten but not top-five? "Hey.

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#8. Just to sit for a moment, herself, no one claiming her time or her thoughts or the product of her mind and hands. What other word to call that if not freedom?

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#9. It struck Linda suddenly that this was the middle of the night. Even here, in the city that never slept, most people now were sleeping. Law firm time was like casino time, only instead of an endless cocktail hour it was always a neon-bright afternoon. The dead center of the workday, all night long.

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#10. Over the years she had learned to fold down rising emotion just as she would fold the clean bedsheets, the sheet growing smaller and tighter with each pass until all that remained of that wide wrinkled expanse of cotton was a hard closed-in square.

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#11. The things you can control and the things you cannot.

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