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Author: Jess Walter
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
the water. The feral cats scattered before her.
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
Couldn't you outgrow the little-girl fantasy? Couldn't love be gentler, smaller, quiter, not quite all-consuming?
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
Maybe all love is hopeless.
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
True sacrifice is painless.
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character - what we believe - none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But there's the thing: it's our goddamned story!
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he is dead?
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
Great fiction tells unknown truths.
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
Sometimes, now, when she sees how content Pat and Lydia are, she feels like a spent salmon: her work here is done. But other times, honestly, the whole idea of being at peace just pisses her off. At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
Io ti maledico a morire lentamente, tormentato dalla tua anima miserabile!" I curse you to a
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Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins
...and now there are two distinct phases to sex with Daryl: the first two minutes like an exam from an autistic gynecologist, the next ten a visit from the Roto-Rooter man."
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