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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins

    Great fiction tells unknown truths.
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  5. 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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  6. Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins

    Io ti maledico a morire lentamente, tormentato dalla tua anima miserabile!" I curse you to a
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  7. 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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  8. Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins

    Words and emotions are simple currencies. If we inflate them, they lose their value,
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  9. Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins

    you broke up two marriages, and faked a young woman's illness, and bribed her to get an abortion-all in the first chapter-
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  10. Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins

    Os hospitais tentam vender centros de parto, os infantários vendem amor, as escolas vendem sucesso... os vendedores de carros promovem o luxo, os conselheiros a autoestima, as massagistas oferecem finais felizes, os cemitérios anunciam o repouso eterno... É interminável, esta febre de vender, promover, exaltar - constante, esgotante, e implacável como a morte.
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  11. Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins

    Sometimes," she said, "what we want to do and what we must do are not the same." She put a hand on his shoulder. "Pasqo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.
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  12. Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins

    And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast.
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