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1. "She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
2. "Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
3. "She walks slowly. She wants to feel the prick, the push of every bit of gravel under her shoe. She wants to feel every scratch, every discomfort of this....her leaving walk." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
4. "Why is it that twenty-four hours in the company of your family is capable of reducing you to a teenager?" ~ Maggie O'Farrell
5. "You young people are always so obsessed with truth. The truth is often overrated." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
6. "That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
7. "Two women in a room. One seated, one standing" ~ Maggie O'Farrell
8. "This is what Lilly loves about London, that every building, street, common and square, has had different uses, that everything was once spomething else, that the present, was once the past ammended" ~ Maggie O'Farrell
9. "There on the landing sits the typewriter. It is clogged with dust, the ribbon dried and flimsy. Looking at it gives Felix a feeling close to vertigo. He realises he can replicate in his head the exact sound it used to make. The clac-clac-a-clac of the metal letters hitting the paper, the ribbon raising itself each time to make the impression. The machine-gun fire of it, when the work was going well. The stops and pauses when it wasn't, to allow for a sigh, a draw on a cigarette. The ding every time the carriage reached its limit. The whirr as the page was snatched out, then the rolling ratcheting as a new one was wound in." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
10. "She hadn't ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did" ~ Maggie O'Farrell
11. "Her grandmother keeps announcing that Esme will never find a husband if she doesn't change her ways. Yesterday, when she said it at breakfast, Esme replied "Good" and was sent to finish her meal in the kitchen." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
12. "It was always the meaningless tasks that endure: the washing, the cooing, the clearing, the cleaning. Never anything majestic or significant, just the tiny rituals that hold together the seams of human life." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
13. "The dress bunched up like loose skin round her neck. It wouldn't behave, wouldn't act as if it was really hers. Wearing it was like being in a three legged race with someone you didn't like." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
14. "The previous day and the day yet to come hang in a balance, each waiting for the other to make a move." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
15. "She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
16. "Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
17. "…one of those terrifying rows where suddenly an end you never thought would come rears up in front of you, like a cliff edge you weren't aware of." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
18. "Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she'd grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her way in the world?" ~ Maggie O'Farrell
19. "Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved." ~ Maggie O'Farrell
20. "We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents." ~ Maggie O'Farrell

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A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest."
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