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-What have you heard?
-“It’s haunted.” - I knew she’d turned my way when she asked, -Have you heard that?
-“Yes,” - I said. - “People tend to die there.”
-It’s been around for hundreds of years, - she reminded me. - There was a fortress there during William the Conqueror’s time, so a dwelling has been there for over a millennium. It’s bound to have had a death or two.

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Everyone aged, and unequivocally, the more you had of it, the more blessed you became. The years we lived, people didn’t seem to understand, were the gift that kept giving. Until they stopped.

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Częścią dorastania jest nauczenie się, jak traktować ludzi, którzy nie zrobili ani jednej rzeczy, żeby cię skrzywdzić.

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What it shouldn’t be like, is losing yourself to the guy you like and trying a different look because he likes more feminine clothes. He either likes Portia as she comes, or he doesn’t. We’re going to find out soon which way that goes.

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And I thought Dad and his marital high jinks, Lou being my stepmother and young enough to be my older sister, Portia and her shenanigans, and me with my rabid bent toward cynicism were a mess. These people put the dys in dysfunction. It was my experience it was always the ones who thought they were superior who were, in reality, anything but.
And I still didn’t know where my car was.

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-I truly don’t know if, today, women bend their entire lives around food and exercise so they can impress men in their yoga pants, or if they do it to make their sisters feel inferior.-
He took another drag from his smoke and then kept talking.
-But I sense, for the most part, it’s about the very sad fact that society has drilled into their heads the only power they have is sweating and starving themselves in order to have a firm ass, and that being to make men think they’re attractive. In many senses, no offense, it’s through little fault of your own, but you lot haven’t come very far since Dorothy’s and Virginia’s time.

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The beauty of it, the thing I found extraordinary and astonishing with the extent of his wealth, the vastness of the history of his family, was that Ian was clearly not out of touch. He realized this, and in the subtlest of ways, moved to alleviate it. Eye contact. Please and thank you. Compliments to the chef. Smiles to people who passed him on the street. Stopping to scratch the head of a dog or tell a woman the baby in her pram was beautiful. Taking his time for those who wanted it to assure them that Lord and Lady Alcott were doing very well, thank you for asking.
It was no surprise I found him enormously attractive.

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Jeśli nie masz w sobie dość siły, by kogoś skrzywdzić, nigdy nie zrozumiesz, dlaczego ktoś mógł to zrobić.

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Say what you will, but I believe the house spoke, at least to me, and I believe it took care of us all, and not just providing a roof over our heads.

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Nikt nie może powiedzieć, czy sposób, w jaki coś działa, jest dobry czy zły, z wyjątkiem osoby, która tak żyje. Tak jak nikt nie może powiedzieć, że coś nie działa i powinno się skończyć, chyba że osoba, która to zakończy.

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jak to się stało, że jako ludzkość zaszliśmy tak daleko i nie zauważyliśmy, że różnica między tymi, którzy mają za dużo, a tymi, którzy nie mają nic, powinna być znacznie mniejsza?.

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-„Czy wiesz – zaczęłam ostrożnie – to mało znany fakt, że spora liczba mężów opuszcza swoje żony, gdy zapadają one na nieuleczalną chorobę?
-Tak. Wiem też, że liczby nie są takie same w drugą stronę. To jest miłość, Daphne. Dla nas wszystkich. Decydujemy, co dać. Co zabrać. Jakie granice budować. Kiedy zostać. Kiedy odpuścić.
Daphne i Lou.

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-lekkomyślne jest ignorowanie inteligentnych kobiet, które uważasz za zbędne tylko dlatego, że były niechciane przez mężczyznę. To powiedziawszy, wnioskuję z jej pamiętników, a było odwrotnie. Uważała mężczyzn za próżnych i nudnych.
Ian do Daphne.