And she valued those who tried, especially those whose struggles were public and obvious.
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He didn’t know what it was like to live between memory and regret with nothing to numb it.
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Now that she was married, her days had a weary open-endedness about them; she floated like a balloon from one social obligation to another.
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‘The harp? What’s useful about a harp?’
Mallory thought a moment. ‘It’s soothing. Isn’t it? And you get to stroke something between your legs in public!’
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the success of the entire venture depended upon the delicate relationship between anticipation and fulfilment; too long a wait between one and the other resulted only in indifference and boredom.
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Grace had imagined something more heated; for sides to be taken, honour defended. The polite civility of Mallory’s interchange felt like a slap in the face.
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the vivid Technicolor version of everyone else’s black-and-white lives.
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It struck her as strange that such violent affections could be reduced to utter indifference.
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London was a Turner watercolour this morning; rendered in dreamy, shifting blues and dusky greens, wet, melting, only ever half finished.
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in his experience, the most effective way to get what he wanted was to simply wait it out.