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"Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far - off, happy place."
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"Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers."

"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."

"When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance."

"My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small."

"Most people don't mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive."

"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all."

"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech."

"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
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"It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways."

"When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know."

"Most locals knew who Della Lee was. She waitressed at a greasy spoon called Eat and Run, which was tucked far enough outside the town limits that the ski - crowd tourists didn't see it. She haunted bars at night. She was probably in her late thirties, maybe ten years older than Josey, and she was rough and flashy and did whatever she wanted - no reasonable explanation required. 'Della Lee Baker, what are you doing in my closet? 'You shouldn't leave your window unlocked. Who knows who could get in? Della Lee said, single - handedly debunking the long - held belief that if you dotted your."

"But Claire had long ago realized, even after those constant dreams of her mother leaving faded away, that when you are abandoned as a child, you are never able to forget that people are capable of leaving, even if they never do."

"He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side."

"Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch."

"Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone."

"We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?"
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