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a harder time with this than I thought

Is he not going to call, then? I don’t know. I guess he’s not. I seem to be having a harder time with this than I thought or it was worth.

In France, they have the story of a ballet dancer so moved by her role that, in a scene in which she was supposed to be dying, and touchingly reunited with h…

—p.28 Pitch Dark I. ORCAS ISLAND (5) by Renata Adler
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the sun is a sort of bribe

Look, the sun is a sort of bribe, you know, and so is a heavy thunderstorm or a snowfall. So is a dawn, though not I think a sunset. So is a warm bath or a shower, and a sound sleep. Bribes all, in the conspiracy of everything to continue to exist.

—p.22 I. ORCAS ISLAND (5) by Renata Adler
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it’s not just unsaid, it’s gone

You can rely too much, my love, on the unspoken things. And the wry smile. I have that smile myself, and I’ve learned the silence, too, over the years. Along with your expressions, like No notion and Of necessity. What happens, though, when it is all unsaid, is that you wake up one morning, no, it’…

—p.9 I. ORCAS ISLAND (5) by Renata Adler
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