“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”
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Card 7
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"If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.”
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Card 8
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“It's not the husbands you have to watch out for, said Aunt Lydia, it's the Wives."
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Card 9
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“At neck level there’s another sheet, suspended from the ceiling, it intersects me and the doctor will never see my face. He deals with a torso only”
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Card 10
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“Give me children, or else I die. There's more than one meaning to it”
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Card 11
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“My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born”
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Card 12
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“She’s like a doll”
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Card 13
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“We pay no attention to the Wife … our eyes are on Janine”
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Card 14
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“The Commander’s Wife looks at the baby like a bouquet of flowers”
