She's Come Undone Quotes

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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.

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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

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As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies.

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That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

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Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

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When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.

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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

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Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

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Life's a shit sandwich, my ass. Life's a polka and don't you forget it!

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You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

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When I asked my parents how the baby got inside Ma, they both laughed, and then Daddy told me they had made it with their bodies. I pictured them fully clothed, rubbing furiously against each other, like two sticks making fire.

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You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

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