Цитаты из книг — Кэрол Шилдс

Hell-Puppy

12 декабря 2016 г., 08:55

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Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, pray, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, just be.

The Stone Diaries

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Hell-Puppy

12 декабря 2016 г., 08:54

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Time and chance. The twin offspring of destiny. That wondrous branching of our fates.

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

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Hell-Puppy

12 декабря 2016 г., 08:52

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In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination…

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Hell-Puppy

12 декабря 2016 г., 08:51

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Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

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Carol Shields

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Anonymous

13 марта 2016 г., 02:28

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Last week I disappointed her by using the word veggies. She had thought better of me, I could tell.

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Anonymous

22 апреля 2023 г., 11:52

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The real troubles in this world tend to settle on the misalignment between men and women.

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Carol Shields

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Anonymous

13 марта 2016 г., 10:56

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Tom delves into the subject of trauma, hoping to rescue or at least understand Norah by tracking down that “thing” that leapt out at her last spring and knocked her out of her life. I don’t want to discourage his pursuit, which, even if it leads nowhere, at least affords him a distraction. As long as he finds parallel…

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Anonymous

12 марта 2016 г., 12:39

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Gwen had made sacrifices for her young student husband, and he had betrayed her with his infidelities. In the late seventies, in the throes of love and anxious to satisfy his every demand, she had had her navel closed by a plastic surgeon because he complained that it smelled “off.” This complaint, apparently, had been…

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