Liane V Quotes

#1. When will it all be over? When will she have time to think and feel again? Presumably not till the baby is a teenager and can safely fend for himself. Although, of course, teenagers need to be taught to drive and say no to drugs and wear condoms.

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#2. Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything.

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#3. The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

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#4. The other mothers, the teachers, the people. I didn't realize that having a child was so social. You're always talking to people.

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#5. Of course you should only be nice to nice people!" Vid looked at Dakota in the rearview mirror. "You hear that, Dakota? Don't waste your time on people who are not nice!

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#6. But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

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#7. I'd forgotten that the best part of dating wasn't the actual dating at all but the talking about it: the analysis of potential new boyfriends with your girlfriends.

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#8. He'd be fine. Every child went to school. They survived. They learned the rules of life.

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#9. Doing this always calmed her. It was like imagining the protective walls of an impenetrable fortress. She

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#10. She felt as though she'd been unforgivably negligent - careless! sloppy! - with the most precious, wonderful gift she'd ever received.

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#11. Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon.

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#12. Parents do tend to judge each other. I don't know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we're doing? And I guess that can sometimes lead to conflict.

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#13. He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

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#14. I can't believe they let us name a person," Nick had said. "It feels like something only the King of the Land should be able to do." "Or the Queen of the Kingdom," Alice said. "Oh, they'd never let a woman name a person," said Nick. "Obviously.

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#15. Bonnie is so 'calm,' you see. The opposite of me. She speaks in one of those soft . . . low . . . melodious voices that make you want to punch a wall.

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#16. I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.

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#17. Actually, what that child needs, thinks Enigma, sniffing noisily, is a real good fuck.

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#18. Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.

Liane Merciel

#19. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

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#20. he pays money to lift weights at the gym, so why not lift a few boxes for free? Have

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#21. She'd looked at the stubble along his jawline, and the thought had crossed her mind: He looks like Clark Kent, but maybe he's really Superman.

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#22. You look well. Do you take some sort of secret supplement?" "Caffeine?" said Tiffany.

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#23. Ah the three-day blues, all new mothers cry on the third day. And I remember thinking, But my goodness, who wouldn't cry?

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#24. Ruby is the littler one, right?" said Erika's mother in her regular voice. "How old is she? Two?" "Yes," said Clementine. "What happened? Nobody saw her fall in? Where was her mother? What was Clementine doing?

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#25. Grandmothers died. It was to be expected. You weren't even allowed to be that upset about it. Please don't let Frannie have died. Please don't let anyone have died. Nobody else in our family will

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#26. I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot.

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#27. It's raining, it's pouring, the old man
is snoring; went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in
the morning.

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#28. She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.

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#29. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

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#30. She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and nowhere to be, because for the rest of her life, there would always, always be something left undone. An unmade confession. An ugly secret.

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