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  1. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    Sugar's cheek was smooth and taut beneath the veil. It felt like one of these netted onions in a grocery store.
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  2. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    They entered Pennsylvania and the road grew smooth for a few hundred yards, like a good intention, before settling back to the old scabby, stippled surface.
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  3. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.
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  4. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    At this moment {letting a breeze ripple through her fingers like warm water}, Maggie felt that the entire business of time's passing was more than she could bear.
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  5. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.
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  6. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    Why did popular songs always focus on romantic love? Why this preoccupation with first meetings, sad partings, honeyed kisses, heartbreak, when life was also full of children's births and trips to the shore and longtime jokes with friends? Once Maggie had seen on TV where archaeologists had just unearthed a fragment of music from who knows how many centuries B.C., and it was a boys lament for a girl who didn't love him back. Then besides the songs there were the magazine stories and the novels and the movies, even the hair-spray ads and the pantyhose ads. It struck Maggie as disproportionate. Misleading, in fact.
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  7. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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  8. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.
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