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Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a bla...more

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She can outstare anyone, and I am almost as good. We’re impervious, we scintillate, we are thirteen. We wear long wool coats with tie belts, the colla...more

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This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

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So by the time the morning came, Odysseus and I were indeed friends, as Odysseus had promised we would be. Or let me put it another way: I myself had ...more

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Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.