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  1. Ann Patchett _ The Dutch House

    But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.
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  2. Ann Patchett _ The Dutch House

    Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?
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  3. Ann Patchett _ The Dutch House

    I had a mother who left when I was a child. I didn't miss her. Maeve was there, with her red coat and her black hair, standing at the bottom of the stairs, the white marble floor with the little black squares, the snow coming down in glittering sheets in the windows behind her, the windows as wide as a movie screen, the ship in the waves of the grandfather clock rocking the minutes away.
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  4. Ann Patchett _ The Dutch House

    The dinner was a huge production, with kids stashed in the den to eat off card tables like a collection of understudies who dreamed of one day breaking into the dining room.
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  5. Ann Patchett _ The Dutch House

    I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees."But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.
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