“We learned to lip-read, our heads flat on the beds, turned sideways, watching each other’s mouths”
Chapter 1
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“As for my husband, she said, he's just that. My husband. I want that to be perfectly clear. Till death do us part. It's final.”
Chapter 3
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“Try to think of it from their point of view she said, her hands clasped and wrung together, her nervous pleading smile. It isn't easy for them.”
Chapter 3
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“This woman has been my partner for two week. I don’t know what append to the one before. On a certain day she simply wasn’t there anymore.”
Chapter 4
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“She's a magic presence to us, an object of envy and desire, we covet her. She's a flag on a hilltop, showing us what can still be done: we too can be saved.”
Chapter 5
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“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.”
Chapter 6
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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.”
Chapter 7
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“It's not the husbands you have to watch out for, said Aunt Lydia, it's the Wives."
Chapter 8
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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”
Chapter 11
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“Give me children, or else I die. There's more than one meaning to it”
Chapter 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”
Chapter 12
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“She’s like a doll”
Chapter 21
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“We pay no attention to the Wife … our eyes are on Janine”
Chapter 21
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“The Commander’s Wife looks at the baby like a bouquet of flowers”
Chapter 21
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“Envy radiates from them”
Chapter 21
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“As for my husband, she said, he's just that. My husband. I want that to be perfectly clear. Till death do us part. It's final.”
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