14 Quotes by Elizabeth Ames

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    How fast champagne could go from golden and effervescent to acrid and sad, flat in the glass, moss on the teeth.

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    No one knows everything about anyone. Not even themselves. Maybe least of all themselves.

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    They could die behind this door together, gasping for air, and tonight they wouldn’t mind. They were majestic, transcendent, in love. They were stupid and awful and they were fools. They hated one another, but only because they sometimes hated themselves. They loved the others more than they had loved anyone before, more than they would ever love anyone else on earth, they were certain.

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    Were they waiting then, huddled together on that bench? Could they sense their gravest mistakes beside them, or know only that they would need to stay within reach of one another as they tested, in turn, how far they could wander from their shared shore before they risked being swept out to sea?

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    They were locked together now in this new way, by blood, by Alice’s secret, her worst act. They’d sworn in blood under the moon to keep Alice’s secret, and in this way the vowed to keep future secrets, too.

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