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  1. Anne Tyler _ Ladder of Years

    Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
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  2. Anne Tyler _ Ladder of Years

    Sometimes she felt like a tiny gnat, whirring around her family's edges
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  3. Anne Tyler _ Ladder of Years

    It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.
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  4. Anne Tyler _ Ladder of Years

    She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg, wife peg, side by side. Facing the road and not looking at each other; for why would they need to, really, having gone beyond the visible surface long ago. No hope of admiring gazes anymore, no chance of unremitting adoration. Nothing left to show but their plain, true, homely, interior selves, which were actually much richer anyhow.
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  5. Anne Tyler _ Ladder of Years

    You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.
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  6. Anne Tyler _ Ladder of Years

    The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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  7. Anne Tyler _ Ladder of Years

    But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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