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[thecourageofobscurity]

She felt that she was neither saint nor sinner, neither lost nor found. She was not needed, and it did not matter.

Mary Lee Settle, Blood Tie

[thecourageofobscurity]

I can help a woman who is crying but a woman who is laughing is already too far away.

Mary Lee Settle, Blood Tie

[thecourageofobscurity]

'I see it,' she said, 'in myself. Pathos ... some isolated child's hope blown up and made cosmic.'

Mary Lee Settle, Blood Tie

[thecourageofobscurity]

He was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen in her life, so beautiful that she was afraid of him.

Mary Lee Settle, Blood Tie

[thecourageofobscurity]

'First,' she said it carefully, 'to have, oh, all the things that people yearn about, but not to know it, is youth. 'To know but cease to have,' she was very serious, '...is something of what age is.'

Mary Lee Settle, Blood Tie

[thecourageofobscurity]

It was time to drink his tea, and be calm, and enjoy the sad pleasure of a little loneliness.

Mary Lee Settle, Blood Tie

[thecourageofobscurity]

She never knew anymore whether it was all a perversion of memory, the truth, or a dream. That was the trouble. She couldn't be sure. She only knew it held her there.

Mary Lee Settle, Blood Tie