#era

The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy.... his arranged marriage between the Elder Edda and "The Wind in the Willows"--big Icelandic romance and small-scale, cozy English children's book. The story told by "The Lord of the Rings" is essentially what would happen if Mole and Ratty got drafted into the Nibelungenlied. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

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It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one of an unnumbered series. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this.... ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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