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like Lend-Lease, or the Marshall Plan inspo/funny

Informed of the situation by Grace, Christian said, "Vail was a fool ever to get mixed up in it." But Christian was in fact content that Adam should take on Dora. It seemed something--like Lend-Lease, or the Marshall Plan--that an American should do. He told Grace, "I carried the burden long enough…

—p.218 The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
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had her husband greatly loved her inspo/characterisation topic/heartbreak

Passing through decreed phases, Margaret Tice was first a bride, next a young housewife, and then an expectant mother. Later, would be constrained to talk of schools, join a tennis club and a committee. Would hear herself say, as if it were some other woman, "I never use cornstarch" or "I clean up …

—p.214 by Shirley Hazzard
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roué

She said, "The old roué," trying to shrug off mortality itself; but sat there changing into a woman who knew the dead.

—p.200 by Shirley Hazzard
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some Austro-Hungarian empire of the heart inspo/characterisation

Caro would have known what to say: not the right thing, but the truth. Caro would have spoken truly or kept a true silence. In accepting to be the sweet one of the sisters, tame and tractable, Grace had by no means intended to cast herself away. She had enjoyed being sweet, and being thought sweet,…

—p.195 by Shirley Hazzard
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some Austro-Hungarian empire of the heart inspo/characterisation

Caro would have known what to say: not the right thing, but the truth. Caro would have spoken truly or kept a true silence. In accepting to be the sweet one of the sisters, tame and tractable, Grace had by no means intended to cast herself away. She had enjoyed being sweet, and being thought sweet,…

—p.195 by Shirley Hazzard