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I preferred to read than talk with the others.
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The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.
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Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense that what is real to me is not real to others, and to share a memory with someone is to risk sullying my belief in what has truly happened.
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As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.
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To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.
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The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.
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Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.
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I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.
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So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.
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