#eugenides

Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

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#love

And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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#jeffrey-eugenides #madeleine-hanna #marriage-plot #marriage

We could make a treaty without a marriage." "No," he said. "You are sure?" "Yes," he said. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

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#eugenides #marriage