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She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

Changeless

I am a terrible judge of character'  "I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset, not feelings.

Chances

All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?

In the City of Shy Hunters

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

In the City of Shy Hunters

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

In the City of Shy Hunters

He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the business of living he wanted nothing to do with.

Conflicts of Interest

I can do pain. That’s the easy part of life. It’s everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that’s fucking complicated.

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happines, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated.

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

Hay veces en las que alguien confía lo suficiente en ti como para contarte sus secretos y eso hace que sea más fácil confiar en él.

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

A Certain Slant of Light

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.

A Creed for the Third Millennium

Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.

The Cinderella Pact

The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season.

Consider Phlebas

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

History will not let us forget: it wears disguises, reintroduces itself to us, claims it is someone new and wonderful. But let us not forget.

City of Stairs

I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it.

City of Stairs

Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.

City of Stairs