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> [“Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would have been happier--it goes without saying--but less of a person. She was filled out by her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-hadley/andy-was-receptive-like-a-deep-vessel-into-which-life-was-poured-if/)

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## More by Tessa Hadley

> [“I probably reread novels more often than I read new ones. The novel form is made for rereading. Novels are by their nature too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-hadley/i-probably-reread-novels-more-often-than-i-read-new-ones-the-novel/)

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> [“And that was true too, that was what the Culverts were like: crucified by their shyness and at the same time contemptuous of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-hadley/and-that-was-true-too-that-was-what-the-culverts-were-like-crucified/)

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> [“I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours.” “It never was brilliant.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-hadley/i-hate-to-think-of-you-stuck-here-all-day-every-day-doing-nothing/)

[Tessa Hadley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-hadley/)

> [“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-hadley/she-imagined-the-reading-she-did-now-as-like-climbing-inside-one-of/)

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> [“But now everything was lost: all the scattered effect of a real person, complicated beyond counting. (Post production, 197)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-hadley/but-now-everything-was-lost-all-the-scattered-effect-of-a-real-person/)

[Tessa Hadley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-hadley/)

> [“The present was always paramount, in a way that thrust you forward: empty, but also free. Whatever stories you told over to yourself and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-hadley/the-present-was-always-paramount-in-a-way-that-thrust-you-forward/)

[Tessa Hadley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-hadley/)

> [“Andy was receptive, like a deep vessel into which life was poured. If this terrible particular thing hadn't been poured into her, she would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-hadley/andy-was-receptive-like-a-deep-vessel-into-which-life-was-poured-if/)

[Tessa Hadley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-hadley/)

> [“Ally wasn't disappointed in the writers: she hadn't expected anything from them in the first place; it hadn't occurred to her to be interested…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-hadley/ally-wasn-t-disappointed-in-the-writers-she-hadn-t-expected-anything/)

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> [“But she wasn't in love, though she had been ready to be. Love sank down gently from where it had been swollen in expectation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-hadley/but-she-wasn-t-in-love-though-she-had-been-ready-to-be-love-sank-down/)

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