Quote collection
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"That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting."
"Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles."
"I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.’ Falling Angels"
"Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me."
"I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that."
"Say something worth the words."
"We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back."
"Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising."