Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife (2008)

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Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose—what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?—and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.

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What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

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To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

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There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

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When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.

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She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

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To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

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Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

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