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I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

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I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

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Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.

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Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

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Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

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All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.

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Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

Julia Glass

Julia Glass

Julia Glass

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Born: March 23, 1956 (age 68)

Bio: Julia Glass is an American novelist. Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002.

Known for:

Three Junes (2002)
And the Dark Sacred Night: A Novel (2014)
The Widower's Tale (2010)
The Whole World Over (2006)
I See You Everywhere (2008)

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