Quotes by Kim Wright

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Men deprived of female company quickly became fearsome creatures, and Trevor believed you could argue that civilization was in fact the invention of women, or at least the invention of the men who wanted to please them. If it were not for the ladies,...

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She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.

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Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

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It is not hard to fool people when they do not want to know the truth.

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This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

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There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

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Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.

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If you want a man to trust you, ask him for a favor. Most people get this part wrong. They try to win people over by offering something to them, but humans instinctively recoil from those who help them. They like the people that they help far better,...

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It was the summer just before we both turned twenty. Before life began to chip away at us like a sculptor into marble, reducing us from endless unformed possibility into the women we would ultimately become.

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If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty…that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But sin and sin alone is eternal.

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For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.

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I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean.

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Religion is nothing more than the study of other people’s experiences with God. But true spirituality is the opportunity to have your own experience with God.

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Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

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