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I’d be damned if I didn’t respect the fuck out of that woman and officially wish to become her when I grew up. Then I remembered I was a grown-up,


“The world is a beautiful place,” she insists, and she’s serious; her gaze is even, her voice level. Her eyes catch mine, hold them. “Don’t forget that.” She reclines, mashing her cigarette into the hollow of the bowl. “And don’t miss it.”
― The Woman in the Window
― The Woman in the Window

“I was fighting for my life. So I must not want to die. And if I don’t want to die, I’ve got to start living.”
― The Woman in the Window
― The Woman in the Window

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I think of Dr. Brulov in Spellbound: “My dear girl, you cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.”
― The Woman in the Window
― The Woman in the Window

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”
― Joyland
― Joyland

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