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Ann Patchett

The Dutch House

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  • Nina Vyvcharukцитирует4 года назад
    “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
  • Natalie Haleцитируетв прошлом году
    “Privacy,” I said, though at eight I had no notion of privacy. I liked the word, and I liked the boxed-in feel the draperies gave when they were closed.
  • Лика Меликсетянцитирует2 года назад
    “Look at the three of us, undone by a house. It’s insane. We’ll go up the driveway, see who’s there. It may be someone else by now.”
  • Лика Меликсетянцитирует2 года назад
    “You’re picking the woman you like the best from a group of women you don’t like,” Maeve said. “Your control group is fundamentally flawed.”
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    The biggest lie in business is that it takes money to make money. Remember that. You’ve got to be smart, have a plan, pay attention to what’s going on around you. None of that costs a dime.
  • Katerina Goncharovaцитирует2 года назад
    People who get upset only make more work
  • Nadiaцитирует3 года назад
    “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.”
  • Nadiaцитирует3 года назад
    “Do you think it’s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?”
  • Мария Даниловацитирует3 года назад
    Sandy shook her head. “Boys,” she said, and with that single word excused me from all responsibility.
  • Мария Даниловацитирует3 года назад
    Sandy or Jocelyn when I had a bad dream in the middle of the night, and it never once occurred to me to knock on my father’s door. I went to Maeve. She taught me the proper way to hold a fork. She attended my basketball games and knew all my friends and oversaw my homework and kissed me every morning before we went our separate ways to school and again at night before I went to bed regardless of whether or not I wanted to be kissed. She told me repeatedly, relentlessly, that I was kind and smart and fast, that I could be as great a man as I made up my mind to be. She was so good at all that, despite the fact that no one had done it for her.
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