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Author: Maile Meloy
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Maile Meloy _ Do Not Become Alarmed
Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law. And civilization was only a thin veneer over the savagery and greed that were the human default.
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Maile Meloy _ Do Not Become Alarmed
Benjamin called it "estro-lock," the way the two women could talk for hours and lose track of time. They ended up in conversation across any table, screening out noise from kids and men. They could talk about shallow things without judgment and deep things without self-consciousness.
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Maile Meloy _ Do Not Become Alarmed
Maybe the Fates snipped with their scissors when they wanted to snip.
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Maile Meloy _ Do Not Become Alarmed
But how could you measure your own pain against the pain of the world?
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Maile Meloy _ The Apothecary
He who delays the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out.
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Maile Meloy _ Do Not Become Alarmed
It takes experience to know what is a catastrophe {Richard Hughes, 'A High Wind in Jamaica'},
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Maile Meloy _ Do Not Become Alarmed
They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids' adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment… She'd been bored and annoyed, and at one point she tried to explain to Sebastian why it wasn't her favor-ite of his books. But Sebastian had loved the book unreservedly. Why hadn't she just read the fucking thing with gusto and relished every moment with her son? Why had she brought her adult judgment and professional story opinions to a book her kid loved? Of course the child hero should always triumph! Who wanted a kids' book to feel like real life? Real life was fucking intolerable.
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Maile Meloy _ The After-Room
But the commandments were absolute. The stone tablets Moses brought down from the mountain had not said Thou shalt not kill except when fighting Nazis, or in self-defense, or in some other situations, listed below. Thou shalt not steal unless thou art near death with hunger fighting in a just cause, or hath a family to support, or if perhaps an irresistible opportunity to get rich presenteth itself.
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Maile Meloy _ Do Not Become Alarmed
They could talk about shallow things without judgment and deep things without self-consciousness.
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Maile Meloy _ Do Not Become Alarmed
People regressed, around their families, to the age at which they had been angriest.
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Maile Meloy _ Do Not Become Alarmed
One aspect of human resilience, in all its marvelousness, was the ability to recalibrate, to adjust to new circumstances with astonishing speed."
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Maile Meloy _ Both Ways is the Only Way I
There's a look little girls have who are adored by their fathers," Bea said. "It's that facial expression of being totally impervious to the badness of the world. If they can keep that look into their twenties, they're pretty much okay, they've got a force field around them. I don't know if Jonna ever had it. I think she's always known about the bad things.
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